Endurance

" You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed? " asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance , stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. " What the ice gets, " replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, " the ice keeps. " It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.