Endurance / Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

One of the greatest adventure stories ever told being the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, 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.

First illustrated edition published in 2000 by Orion Publishing. Illustrated hard cover with the exact same image as is on the dustjacket 255x195mm, 278 pages with numerous Frank Hurley photographs and a double page map of the ill fated voyage.

This book is complete and in very good condition throughout with no marks, tears or any other damage. The cover is also in very good condition with light surface and edge wear. The dust jacket is also in very good condition with light edge wear.

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.....Having read this book myself this an absolutely amazing story of survival and heroism in the most dire of circumstances....

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