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"The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. ""You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?"" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. ""What the ice gets, "" replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, ""the ice keeps."" It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-1916 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration."

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A native New Zealander, F. A. Worsley served as a reserve officer in the Royal Navy before becoming captain of the Endurance. He commanded two ships in World War I, for which he was decorated, sailed with Shackleton again in 1921, and in 1925 was the joint leader of the British Arctic Exploration. Worsley died in 1943. Michael Page is an actor and narrator who has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. Patrick O'Brian (1915-2000) wrote twenty volumes in the highly respected Aubrey-Maturin series, as well as acclaimed biographies of Pablo Picasso and Sir Joseph Banks. He also translated many works from the French, among them the novels and memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Lacouture's biographies of Charles de Gaulle. He passed away in January 2000 at the age of eighty-five.

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