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)