Endurance, la prisión blanca

In December 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven men embarked on the Endurance bound for the South Pole, with the goal of crossing overland to Antarctica, the last unexplored continent. A month later, the ship ran aground on the ice of the Weddel Sea without being able to make landfall, near the Antarctic Circle. Shackleton and his companions survived adrift in one of the world's most inhospitable regions before being able to abandon ship and embark on a journey of more than 2,000 kilometers to reach the closest command post to civilization. The odyssey of Shackleton and his companions is one of the most incredible of the 20th century. Alfred Lansing had access to the journals of the expedition members and met several of the survivors. The will and energy shown by that group of men in their titanic fight against the unleashed forces of nature exceeded the known limits of human resistance. Endurance is a masterpiece of maritime literature and the definitive account of the fateful expedition.