Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic by Lansing, Alfred (2001) Hardcover
Author: Alfred Lansing
A thrilling reading experience! One of the greatest adventure stories of our times’ – New York Times Book Review. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men, sailed for the South Atlantic on the ‘Endurance’ with the object of crossing the Antarctic over land. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in i….Read More
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