by Alfred Lansing · Ediciones Península · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788411001311
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In December 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men set sail on the Endurance for the South Pole, with the aim of crossing Antarctica, the last unexplored continent, by land. A month later, the ship became trapped in the ice of the Weddell Sea, near the Antarctic Circle. Shackleton and his crew survived adrift in one of the most inhospitable regions of the world, before abandoning the ship and embarking on a journey of more than 2,000 kilometers to reach the command post closest to civilization.
The odyssey of Shackleton and his companions is one of the most incredible of the 20th century. Alfred Lansing had access to the diaries of the members of the expedition and met several of the survivors. The will and energy demonstrated by that group of men in their titanic struggle against the unleashed forces of nature exceeded the known limits of human resistance. 'Endurance' is a masterpiece of maritime literature and the definitive account of the fateful expedition.
