![]() ![]() Shackleton sailed the 22.5-foot James Caird 650 nautical miles away to a whaling station on South Georgia Island in a last ditch effort for rescue before starvation. ![]() In all, it was a two year story of true endurance to survive on ice floes, cross dangerous Arctic seas, and land on barren Elephant Island. ![]() They subsequently lost the ship to crushing ice in the Weddel Sea. Due to heavy ice, they never made it to shore. His ship, the Endurance, carried the captain and a crew of twenty-eight. Both the North and South Poles had already been reached, so Shackleton proposed crossing the Antarctic continent as the next adventurous goal to be reached. In 1914 during the age of exploration on earth, Sir Ernest Shackleton lead the Trans Antarctic Expedition. I found mine used at Cozy Corner Books in Coffee in Bellingham. It 's now available as a reprint by Basic Books or on Kindle. Endurance by Alfred Lansing was originally published by Carroll and Graf Publishers, Inc. ![]()
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