' One of the most remarkable tales of human courage & determination. The story is gripping & the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration & human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton & a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overl&. In October 1915 still half a continent away from their intended base the ship was trapped then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton & his men drifting on ice packs were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book based on first-hand accounts of crew members & interviews with survivors describes how the men survived how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land how they were attacked by sea leopards the diseases which they developed & the indefatigability of the men & their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.