The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander

The Endurance:  Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander is a 213-page hardcover published in 1999 by Alfred A. Knopf and is the stated seventh printing.  The dust jacket has some shelf wear, a tear to the front cover on the author's name, and a crease along the back.  Inside, the book is in very good condition. Book Summary In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come with an 85 miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open b