Author: Meredith Hooper; illustrator: M.P. Robertson
Intrigued by the mysterious, vast continent at the
bottom of the word, Sir Ernest Shackleton fearlessly
led 27 men to explore Antarctica -- but on their way
to its shore, their ship Endurance was crushed
by the relentless ice. The shipwrecked team braved many
months stranded on an ice floe (through an Antarctic
winter), facing extreme hunger, frostbite, illness,
and exhaustion. But through Shackleton's heroic effort
to sail in an open wooden lifeboat to the nearest inhabited
land -- hundreds of miles away through the treacherous
ocean -- everyone was eventually rescued.
Accompanying this tale for young readers are watercolor
paintings that capture the beauty of the Antarctic landscape
and the team's heroic determination to survive. Young
readers and adults alike will also be fascinated by
the maps, chronology, and further background this book
provides on one of history's most extraordinary expeditions.
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