General Information

Title: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Author: Alfred Lansing
Narrator: Simon Prebble
Copyright: 2007
Genre: Nonfiction
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Duration: 10 hours 20 minutes
ISBN: 9781481582568

Media Information

Encoded Format: MPEG Audio
Encoded Codec: MP3
Encoded Sample Rate: 22.05 kHz
Encoded Channels: 1
Encoded Bitrate: 48 kb/s

Book Description

This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most
astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.

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.