"Endurance": Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
In the summer of 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard theEndurancebound for the South Atlantic. The goal of his  expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland, but more than a year  later, and still half a continent away from the intended base, theEndurancewas trapped in ice and eventually was crushed. For  five months Shackleton and his crew survived on drifting ice packs in  one of the most savage regions of the world before they were finally  able to set sail again in one of the ship's lifeboats. Alfred Lansing'sEndurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyageis a white-knuckle  account of this astounding odyssey.Through the diaries of team  members and interviews with survivors, Lansing reconstructs the months  of terror and hardship theEndurancecrew suffered. In October  of 1915, there "were no helicopters, no Weasels, no Sno-Cats, no  suitable planes. Thus their plight was naked and terrifying in its  simplicity. If they were to get out--they had to get themselves  out." How Shackleton did indeed get them out without the loss of a  single life is at the heart of Lansing's magnificent true-life  adventure tale.--This text refers to thePaperbackedition.