Norwich Area Book Club: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Want to meet other book enthusiasts in Norwich? This book club features reads related to personal growth and experience. Join us in April to read "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing.

 

From the jacket: "In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

 

In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age."

 

The first 10 people to register will be able to pick up a complimentary copy of the book.