•‘A breathtaking story of courage under the most appalling conditions’ SIR EDMUND HILLARY. •Illustrated
 with the rare and often forgotten illustrations of the voyage of the 
James Caird drawn by official expedition artist George Marston. •‘Makes us feel to the marrow the conditions that the party endured before all hands were rescued… remarkable’ THE NEW YORKER. The
 harrowing first hand account by Frank Worsley of how the men of the 
'Endurance', which sank crushed by ice in South Latitude 69, made their 
way in three small boats through the scattering floes to Elephant 
Island. It was from this island that Shackleton, Worsley and four 
others embarked on the 16-day journey that belongs for all time to the 
history of these seas, bringing the open boat, James Caird, over 800 
miles through squall and hurricane to South Georgia. There they tramped 
across the ice and snow and rocky heights of the almost unknown interior
 to a whaling station, from which they set out to rescue the men they 
had left behind. Few could read the story of these triumphant exploits 
by land and sea without a stirring of the blood. Frank Worsley’s 
part in this epic voyage was pivotal, it was his feat of navigation and 
seamanship that made the extraordinary boat journey possible. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank
 Arthur Worsley was born in 1872 in New Zealand. A gifted seaman and 
navigator he served in the Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy before 
joining in 1914, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition as captain of 
HMS 'Endurance'. In the First World War, he captured the Q-ship 
PC61 and a German U-boat. From 1921-2 he took part in Shackleton’s last 
expedition to the Antarctic as captain of the Quest. He wrote several 
books charting his seafaring and Polar achievements including 
'Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure', 'Under Sail in the Frozen 
North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition' and 'First Voyage 
in a Square-Rigged Ship'. He died in 1943 aged 70.

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