Dimensions
107 x 138 x 33mm
The True Story Of Shackleton's Incredible Voyage To The Antarctic
4 cassettes; abridged
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith
In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the "Endurance". The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
This gripping account recreates one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. It describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, had to kill their beloved dogs whom they could no longer feed, the diseases which they developed (an operation to amputate the foot of one member of the crew was carried out on the ice), and the extraordinary indefatigable will triumphing over the most adverse conditions conceivable.
