{"product_id":"9780393318647","title":"Shackletons Boat Journey","description":"Frank A. Worsley was the captain of the H.M.S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted on an ice floe for five months. Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley, and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage. All hands survived this ill-fated expedition; as Worsley writes, \"By self-sacrifice and throwing his own life into the balance, [Shackleton] saved every one of his men . . . although at times it had looked unlikely that one could be saved.\" \"This remarkable book . . . shows [Shackleton] both luckless and lucky, and supremely cool and courageous throughout. Worsley writes without heroics . . . but makes us feel to the marrow the conditions that the party endured before all hands were rescued.\"—The New Yorker  \"Worsley's account of that journey is a breath-taking story of courage, skill and determination under the most appalling conditions.\"—Sir Edmund Hillary","brand":"F A Worsley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":57021411721376,"sku":"9780393318647","price":10.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/144100.jpg?v=1779206482","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780393318647","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}