This utterly gripping book, based on firsthand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, had to kill their beloved dogs whom they could no longer feed, the diseases which they developed (an operation to amputate the foot of one member of the crew was carried out on the ice), and the extraordinary indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. Alfred Lansing Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Paperback International Edition, Januby Alfred Lansing (Author) 12,035 ratings Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 94.92 7 Used from 55.95 3 New from 357.77 Paperback 11.29 21 Used from 2.22 10 New from 11. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage.
The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. Infants depend on caregivers, usually parents, for basic needs such as food.
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