{"product_id":"endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-9780393319941","title":"Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eYou seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?\u003c\/em\u003e\" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. \"\u003cem\u003eWhat the ice gets, \u003c\/em\u003e\" replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, \"\u003cem\u003ethe ice keeps.\u003c\/em\u003e\" It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1931, \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorsley, Frank Arthur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - A native New Zealander, \u003cstrong\u003eFrank A. Worsley\u003c\/strong\u003e served as a reserve officer in the Royal Navy before becoming captain of the \u003ci\u003eEndurance\u003c\/i\u003e. He commanded two ships in World War I, for which he was decorated, sailed with Shackleton again in 1921, and in 1925 was the joint leader of the British Arctic Exploration. Worsley died in 1943.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648836342034,"sku":"9780393319941","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5cd96f6e-fc71-4810-8f43-553ef1d13a54.jpg?v=1733250251","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/endurance-an-epic-of-polar-adventure-9780393319941","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}