ENDURANCE: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Readers Union, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Fair. Readers Union Book Club Edition; 269 pages, illustrated 8 b/w photographs, double page map in text. Original covers in unclipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, dust jacket spotted, missing some pieces and rear flap of original dust jacket missing, additional photocopied dust jacket also supplied with the book. Covers faded where dust jacket has pieces missing, contents clean. Ernest Shackleton's third Antarctic expedition sailed from London. His ship was the Endurance, but little did her complement know that their own Endurance would be tested to the full after the ship was trapped in the ice in the Weddell Sea late in 1915 and had to be abandoned. This was the beginning of a struggle for survival, with 28 men with three small boats striking out by sledge and boat across the hazardous Weddel Sea for Elephant Island. Their journey took from Christmas 1915 to April 1916. From the island Shackleton, with a crew of five others, left on April 24 to sail one of the small boats to South Georgia, which they reached on May 10. This has become one of the epic small boat voyages of all time, but it was to be the end of August before the remaining survivors could be rescued from Elephant Island. A remarkable story of beating all the odds. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 3690. .