Widely cited as one of the greatest examples of leadership.

“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, 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.”

Lansing recounts the remarkable survival story of Ernest Shackleton and his Antarctic expedition. This true story is widely admired as a study of leadership, resilience, and the extraordinary determination required to survive extreme adversity.