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. The book begins with these lines: The order to abandon ship was given at 5 p.m. The crew remains in good spirits while stuck, but they’re forced to abandon ship when the Endurance is finally crushed. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. The plan goes awry when the Endurance is trapped in pack ice and adrift for months. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage: Alfred Lansing, Simon Prebble: 9781433208188: : Books Skip to main content. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Alfred Lansing, Simon Prebble on. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance.
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