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Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small...

This classic tale of British bravery, loyalty and inspiring leadership has a new Introduction by Hugh Andrew and is available for the first time in B format, marking the 100th anniversary of Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica. It is one of the most breath-taking and inspiring adventure stories of all time.

Worsley was a naval officer and polar explorer, best known as the captain of Shackleton's Endurance. In this book, Worsley tells of his trip as co-leader of the 1926 British Artic Expedition.

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You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets, " replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." 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. First pu...

Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition was trapped when their ship became stuck in pack ice. This is the captain's version of this remarkable journey.