Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By Alfred Lansing
(Carroll & Graf Publishers, Paperback, 9780786706211, 282pp.)
Publication Date: March 1999
Categories: Adventurers & Explorers, Historical - British
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Description
The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip. of photos and maps. Nationwide traveling museum exhibition.











