The country had lost everything in just a few weeks: its naval prestige, its hero, and its objectives. To make matters worse, soon after, England was saddened with the news that Scott died while attempting to journey back. The country’s record for exploration “had been perhaps unparalleled among the nations of the Earth,” and now they had to take “a humiliating second-best” to a much less-renowned country. When Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the Farthest South latitude on Decem– about a month before a British expedition led by renowned explorer Robert Falcon Scott achieved the same – the United Kingdom didn’t take the news lightly. The audacious plan of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton

So, get ready for a frighteningly freezing adventure and join us as we follow Shackleton on one of the most incredible voyages in history. Also, it’s not about reaching the South Pole, but about something even more daunting: crossing the entire inhospitable continent from sea to sea.

Set during this age, Alfred Lansing’s classic, “Endurance,” is not about the period’s most famous protagonists such as Roald Amundsen or Robert Falcon Scott – but about one of Scott’s officers, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. To history buffs and readers of exploration literature, this period is primarily known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, 'defined heroism.First discovered by a Russian expedition in 1820, the continent of Antarctica became an object of fascination for numerous explorers around the world during the first two decades of the 20th century. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun.

For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed.

In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. 'Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last.

Endurance by Alfred Lansing