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Book SynopsisFrank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S.
Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the
Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship''s party of twenty-eight drifted in an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition; as Worsley writes, ''By self-sacrifice and throwing his own life into the balance, (Shackleton) saved every one of his men...although at times it looked unlikely that one could be saved.''
Trade ReviewA breath-taking story of courage, skill and determination under the most appalling conditions -- Sir Edmund Hillary
One of the great survival stories of our time * Library Journal *
A remarkable book... Worsley writes without heroics...but makes us feel to the marrow the conditions that the party endured before all hands were rescued * New Yorker *
Simply gripping * Irish Mountain Log *
A stirring account of a fascinating adventure * Sunday Tribune *
