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The Endurance Expedition

Ernest Shackleton

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English

Penguin Classics
01 August 2011

Geographical discovery & exploration; Travel & holiday; Travel writing; Expeditions

'We longed keenly for the day when we could begin this march, the last great adventure in this history of South Polar exploration . . . '

As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via the Pole.

But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed around their ship, Endurance, gradually crushing her to death and marooning twenty-eight men on the polar ice.

Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton and his team began a brutal quest for survival.

As the story of their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes movingly clear.

'One of the most harrowing survival stories of all time.'

- Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm

Introduction by FERGUS FLEMING

Photographs by FRANK HURLEY

By: Ernest Shackleton
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 323g
ISBN: 9780142437797
ISBN 10: 0142437794
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874 and joined the merchant navy at 16. A passion for exploration led to him joining the Royal Geographic Society whilst still at sea and in 1901 he secured a place on Captain Scott's first Antarctic expedition. In 1907 he embarked on his own Antarctic mission and was knighted on his return to England. 7 years later, in his ship the Endurance, he set off on an attempt to cross the Antartic from one side, to the other. Although his ship was trapped and crushed in ice Shackleton made an incredible journey to rescue his men and returned home a hero. Fergus Fleming was educated at Oxford University and City University, London and has been a freelance writer since 1991. Barrow's Boys, which is a chronicle of 19th century exploration, was read on BBC Radio 4 and other titles include Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole and Cassell's Tales of Endurance. He currently lives in Cheltenham.

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