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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

A captivating and inspiring tale of exploration, human endurance and survival.

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Categories:

Leadership Nature Survival Historical Travel Biography Non-fiction Adventure History

Language:

English

Length:

282 pages

Author:

Alfred Lansing
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