Endurance

In 1914 vaart poolonderzoeker Ernest Shackleton met zijn schip de Endurance naar Antarctica om het continent te doorkruisen. Het schip raakt bevroren in het ijs en drijft maanden mee voordat het wordt verpletterd. Shackleton en zijn bemanning moeten een levensgevaarlijke tocht van 850 mijl over de Zuid-Atlantische Oceaan ondernemen naar het eiland Zuid-Georgië om gered te worden.

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. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia,a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean. 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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