{"product_id":"endurance-epic-polar-adventure-9780393319941-new","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","brand":"W W NORTON \u0026 CO","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67602466079010,"sku":"9780393319941-new","price":16.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9780393319941.jpg?v=1792967597","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/endurance-epic-polar-adventure-9780393319941-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}