Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A. Worsley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to Antarctica, this firsthand account chronicles one of the most breathtaking and inspiring survival stories of all time. In August of 1914, Shackleton and his handpicked crew embarked from London on the HMS Endurance, determined to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic. In this memoir, Frank Worsley, the captain of the ship, describes how the Endurance became trapped and was ultimately crushed to splinters by pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915; how the crew was forced to drift on an ice floe for five months before they were able to launch three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island; and how Shackleton and seven others—including Worsley—went on in a 22-foot open boat for 800 miles through wintery Antarctic seas to South Georgia in search of rescue. As moving as it is gripping, this is an extraordinary story of courage and even good humor among a group of men who, in the face of what must have seemed certain death, exhibited toughness, competence, loyalty, and modesty. | Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A. Worsley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters