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Book Review, © Copyright 1998, Jim Loy
This is the amazing story of an Antarctic expedition gone awry. In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's third expedition landed on Antarctic ice. Their plan was to be the first people to reach the South Pole, and to cross the continent. Instead, their ship, the Endurance, was trapped in the ice and crushed. 28 men were stranded 1200 miles from the nearest civilization.
They pulled their lifeboats to the edge of the ice and drifted north on the ice for five months. When they started drifting away from land, they launched the lifeboats. In a couple of weeks, they landed on Elephant Island. Then Shackleton and five others took one of the lifeboats, and went for help.
These six men sailed through cold, rough seas to South Georgia. Then, three of the men trekked overland to a whaling town. A whaling ship rescued the three men who were left on the South side of South Georgia. Then a whaling ship rescued the remaining 22 men from Elephant Island. It had been almost 10 months since they had had to abandon ship. All of them had survived.
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