South: The Endurance Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned.

In 1914, as the shadow of the First World War fell over Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to become the first to traverse the entire Antarctic continent.

However, their initial optimism is short-lived as the ice field gradually thickens, gripping their ship Endurance and slowly crushing her, marooning all twenty-eight men on the polar ice.

In a breathtaking, seemingly endless struggle against the elements, Shackleton leads his team on a brutal quest for survival in the most unforgiving environment imaginable. Freezing, treacherous seas of gargantuan waves, mountainous glaciers and icebergs, relentless cold and ever-looming starvation all conspire against the team staying alive.

This is their extraordinary, epic story, as told by the man who led them. (back cover)