Experience "one of the best adventure books ever written" ( Wall Street Journal ) in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance , the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. Read more
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416 pages
Item Weight: 0.75 lbs
Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.1 inches
"One of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read."—Chicago Tribune
"Riveting."—The New York Times
"Without a doubt this painstakingly written authentic adventure story will rank as one of the classic tales of the heroic age of exploration."—Christian Science Monitor
"Grit in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity."—Wall Street Journal
"[An] incomparable telling of Shackleton's travails."—Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review
INCREDIBLE SALES TRACK: This classic and beloved adventure tale is one of Basic's bestselling backlist titles - we net approximately 22,000 copies annually in PB and 11,000 in Ebook. We are now supplanting the existing paperback edition with the text of the updated Anniversary Edition, published in Spring 2014.
REDESIGNED INTERIOR: For the 100th anniversary of Shackleton's journey, we have rekeyed the interior to make it thoroughly modern, added two 16-page photo inserts, and completely redesigned the cover.
NEW INTRODUCTION BY NATHANIEL PHILBRICK: Bestselling historian Nathaniel Philbrick has written a new introduction for this edition, revealing for the first time how a young, relatively unknown midwesterner named Alfred Lansing came to write this classic tale of survival and heroism-and how the book, after being out of print for 25 years, went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
ENDURING CLASSIC: This breathtaking saga of triumph and tragedy continues to find new audiences. Hailed as "one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read" and "one of the classic tales of the heroic age of exploration" by the Chicago Tribune and the Christian Science Monitor respectively, Endurance is a timeless classic. This edition will introduce Endurance to a new generation of readers and ensure that it continues to be assigned in middle and high schools across the country.
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