The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Caroline Alexander tells the story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, whose ship Endurance was trapped and crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea. Drawing on diaries and interviews and illustrated with Frank Hurley's expedition photographs, the book follows the 28 men through months on the ice, the open-boat voyage to Elephant Island and South Georgia, and their rescue without the loss of a single life.