Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
of Alfred Lansing
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The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
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- Format Hardcover
- Pages 282 pages
- Publisher Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Publication Date January 1st 1959
- First Publication Not informed
- Language English
- ISBN 9780786706211
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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