{"product_id":"endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-paperback","title":"Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eYou seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?\u003c\/em\u003e\" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. \"\u003cem\u003eWhat the ice gets, \u003c\/em\u003e\" replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, \"\u003cem\u003ethe ice keeps.\u003c\/em\u003e\" It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1931, \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51365901205727,"sku":"9780393319941","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7b0D_sauAW9780393319941.webp?v=1789073682","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}