‘Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew make today’s hightech adventurers
look like dilettantes. Their interminable voyage across frozen land
and open sea is one of the most harrowing survival stories of all
time.’ Sebastian Junger, author of the bestselling The Perfect
Storm.In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for
the South Atlantic on board the Endurance. The object of the
expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915,
still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was
trapped, then crushed in ice. For seventeen months Shackleton and his
men, drifting on ice packs and then on the stormiest seas on the
globe, were castaways in this most savage region of the world. Frank
Hurley, the photographer of the expedition, documented their
struggles, miraculously saving his negatives and photographs from
destruction at each stage of their journey. His photographs
illustrate the dramatic, terrible beauty of the lands with which they
were contending. They also provide an unsurpassable insight into the
extraordinary spirit of Shackleton and his crew, and their
extraordinary indefatigability and lasting civility towards one
another in the most adverse conditions.Lansing’s gripping narrative,
based on firsthand accounts of crew members and interviews with
survivors, vividly describes how the men lived together in camps on
the ice until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea
leopards, ate sea lion and polar bear, developed frostbite (an
operation to amputate the foot of one member of the crew was carried
out on the ice), and finally embarked on a 850-mile voyage in a
22-foot open lifeboat to find help.
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