Antarctica is a land still locked in the grip of an ice age, where the sun disappears for month at a time, and the temperatures can drop as low as -78 degrees Fahrenheit. It was the last great region of the world to be discovered and, even today, great tracts of the continent lie unexplored.
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail aboard his ship "Endurance", heading an audacious expedition to cross the continent of Antarctica on foot. His primary aim failed, but the story that has emerged of survival against the odds, remains one of the most gripping dramas of all time.
This book charts the achievements of this great explorer and his contemporaries as they endeavoured to conquer a continent of ice. It reveals why Captain Scott died while Roald Amundsen survived, and documents Shackleton's legendary leadership skills as he kept his men from despair when their ship was crushed by ice in 1915.
