Read by: Simon Prebble
Language: English
Length: 10 hours and 20 minutes
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Release date: 2008-04-08
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Apple | Top Audiobooks - History | 6 | September 19, 2024 | |
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Audible | Top History Audiobooks | 54 | September 19, 2024 | |
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In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through.