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ENDURANCE - ALFRED LANSING KARTONIERT (TB)

One of the great adventure stories of our time.-New York Times Book ReviewIn August 1914  polar
explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica  where he planned
to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915  after battling its way through
a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination  the Endurance
became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew
of twenty-seven men. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was
finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left  Shackleton and a skeleton crew
attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the
closest outpost of civilization. Their survival  and the survival of the men they left behind 
depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia a tiny dot of
land in a vast and hostile ocean. In Endurance   the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's
fateful trip  Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has
defined heroism for the modern age.

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