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Listen to the full audiobook free with a 30-day trial at http://hotaudiobook.com/free/331311 Title: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage Author: Alfred Lansing Narrator: Tim Pigott-Smith Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs 1 min Language: English Release date: 2000-01-01 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks Genres: History, World Publisher's Summary: In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew set sail from England for Antarctica, where Shackleton hoped to be the first man to cross the uncharted continent on foot. Five months later, the Endurance-just a day's sail short of its destination-became locked in an island of ice, and its destiny and men became locked in history. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted until it was finally crushed, and Shackleton and his men drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek throug