Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition - Book

A superb, authoritative telling of one of history's great survival stories, that of Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica. The author draws on previously unavailable material and presents the awesome photographs by Frank Hurley.

Caroline Alexander's The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998. It tells the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917, which set out to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.

The expedition failed in that goal, but it became recognized instead as an epic feat of endurance and is considered the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The book is illustrated with photographs by Frank Hurley, the expedition's photographer, making it a powerful gift for anyone who loves polar history and survival at sea. This edition is a hardcover.