Cover of Endurance

    Endurance

    Alfred Lansing

    418 pages

    Describes how the ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton became immobilized by ice for 10-months on his 1914 expedition to Antarctica, resulting in an 850-mile journey back to civilization with only a skeleton crew remaining. 60,000 first printing.

    This book is a gripping tale that kept me reading around the clock for three days; I even lost sleep over it!