![]() ![]() ![]() Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue.ĭrawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition -one of history's greatest epics of survival. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come with an 85 miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Inside, the book is in very good condition. The dust jacket has some shelf wear, a tear to the front cover on the author's name, and a crease along the back. Knopf and is the stated seventh printing. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander is a 213-page hardcover published in 1999 by Alfred A. ![]()
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