The Endurance: Shackleton's Perilous Expedition in Antarctica

This true adventure tale of courage and survival tracks the dangerous expedition to Antarctica led by Sir Ernest Shackleton featuring 40 fullcolor illustrations. Intrigued by the mysterious vast continent at the bottom of the world Sir Ernest Shackleton fearlessly led 27 men to explore Antarcticabut on their way to its shore their ship Endurance was crushed by the relentless ice! The shipwrecked team braved many months stranded on an ice floe (through an Antarctic winter) facing extreme hunger frostbite illness and exhaustion. But through Shackletons heroic effort to sail in an open wooden lifeboat to the nearest inhabited landhundreds of miles away through the treacherous oceaneveryone was eventually rescued and this amazing true story began to be told again and again. Accompanying this tale for young readers are lovely watercolor paintings that capture the beauty of the Antarctic landscape and the teams heroic determination to survive. Young readers and adults alike will also be fascinated by the maps chronology and further background this book provides on one of historys most extraordinary expeditions.