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In August 1914, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set in place sail for the South Atlantic in search of the previous unclaimed prize in the annals of exploration: the first crossing by walking of the Antarctic continent. They came with in eighty-five a long way of their vacation spot when their dispatch, Strength, was caught fast in the ice pack, and the crew was stranded on the floes. Their ordeal lasted for twenty grueling calendar months, and the group made two near-fatal endeavors to escape by open vessel before these were finally rescued.
Attracting upon recently unavailable options, Caroline Alexander offers us a riveting profile of Shackleton's expedition. A fantastic re-creation of the bad beauty of Antarctica, the awful destruction of the dispatch, and the crew's heroic daily have difficulties for success, The Strength thrillingly represents one of the previous great travels in the brave time of exploration—perhaps the greatest of these all.
