Shackleton's Boat Journey The Narrative of the Captain of the Endurance

Frank Worsley's gripping adventure story is hardly hinted at by the unassuming title, Shackleton's Boat Journey. Worsley was the captain of the Endurance, and the matter-of-fact tone that pervades this book serves to heighten rather than diminish the astounding accomplishments of Ernest Shackleton and his crew, who were attempting an Antarctic Expedition in 1914. When the Endurance became trapped in pack ice, the task of the expedition changed from one of exploration to one of survival. The ice eventually crushed the ship, and the crew was forced to set up camp on a giant ice floe, drifting for five months. Our party of twenty-eight -- eleven scientists and seventeen seamen -- camped on the floes in lightweight tents through which the sun and moon shone and the blizzards chilled us. Our main food supply consisted of seals and penguins. So the ice, with its human freight, crept northwards -- 600 miles in five months. The first part of the book chronicles their push to the nearest land, Elephant Island. Danger was everywhere.Worsley, Frank Arthur is the author of 'Shackleton's Boat Journey The Narrative of the Captain of the Endurance' with ISBN 9781589762558 and ISBN 158976255X.