Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic aboard the ship Endurance. The expedition's goal was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed, by ice.

This is the story of how they survived.

After their ship was claimed by the Antarctic seas, Shackleton and his men drifted on ice packs for months, castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. The threats they faced were legion: cold, exposure, disease and attacks from vicious sea leopards. Yet as Lansing shows, in his account drawn from first-hand accounts by crew members and interviews with the expedition's survivors, the men's collective spirit was indefatigable; their civility to one another never dimmed by 17 months on the Antarctic ice.