{"product_id":"endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-9780393319941","title":"Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Frank Arthur Worsley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Polar Regions\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408800309399,"sku":"9780393319941","price":1205.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780393319941.webp?v=1767672273","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-9780393319941","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}