Shackleton's Incredible Voyage ENDURANCE by Alfred Lansing
Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage Endurance by Alfred Lansing In case you’re in the mood to be BLOWN AWAY…. GIRD YOUR SOUL in preparation for this tantalizing odyssey. In August of 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica in the hopes of crossing the LAST uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, after battling a thousand miles of pack ice- Shackleton and his crew are trapped. Their ship is slowly being crushed to death. They have no choice but to abandon it. What happens after this is nothing short of a miracle (well, more like a hundred miracles….) The challenges these men endured (the ship was aptly named) are inconceivable: the physical demands on their bodies,...