Endurance. The Greatest Adventure Story Ever Told

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Phoenix
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 277 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Shackleton's Incredible Voyage: An Illustrated Account Of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage To The Antarctic.

Publishers Description: The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackletons 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 Atlantics heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackletons fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

ISBN: 9781842121375