Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Resumen del libro

Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called 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 five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world.

This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand 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, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.

Biografía del autor

Editor y autor, Alfred Lansing sirvió de joven en la Marina de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, llegando a recibir el Corazón Púrpura. En 1946, tras dejar la marina, regresó al North Park College durante dos años para luego pasar a la Universidad de Northwestern, donde estudió periodismo. Hasta 1949 fue editor de un periódico semanal en Illinois. Después trabajó como escritor independiente para medios como United Press y la revista Collierx{0026} x02019;s, y más tarde como editor de Time Inc. Pero Alfred Lansing es sobre todo conocido por haber publicado el best seller Endurance (1959), un relato histórico del viaje de sir Ernest Shackleton a la Antártida en 1914.