The Mammoth Book of Endurance and Adventure

About this book

Fifty vivid true-life accounts from the Great Age of Exploration in the words of the intrepid adventurers who survived to tell the tale. Inspired by Sir Ernest Shackletons account of his Antarctic expedition aboard the Endurance and including his own gripping tale of an 800-mile voyage across polar waters on a lifeboat this anthology comprises fifty true-life adventures taken from contemporary memoirs letters and journals -- among them selections by Thor Heyerdahl on the Kon Tiki Edmund Hillary on Everest Robert Falcon-Scott on the South Pole Chris Bonnington on the Blue Nile Wilfred Thesiger on the Arabian desert and Beryl Markham on her east-to-west flight across the Atlantic.