Book description
Discover the story Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition and loss of the Endurance, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes - one of the only men to understand his experience first-hand . . .
'For anyone with a passion for polar exploration, this is a must read'…
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History is full of incredible tales; it is why I love writing and reading about it. I was so inspired by the recent re-discovery of Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, in 2022.
I loved the image of her beneath the Antarctic ice, ‘Endurance’ emblazoned across her stern. This book captures the drive and the power of the human spirit under hardship. Shackleton and his men’s open boat journey across the worst seas in the world is an amazing story, one that seems almost unreal.
Ranulph Fiennes’s experience in such extreme environments really gives an additional, sensitive layer to…
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