The Endurance. Caroline Alexander. HC

Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition In August 1914, 7 days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration, the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within 85 miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and the would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue. There is a name written inside the front cover. Other than that, the book is in very good condition