In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the sailing ship Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, planning to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after struggling to pass through a thousand miles of frozen sea and just one day's journey from their destination, the Endurance became trapped in an ice floe. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.
For ten months, the trapped Endurance drifted northwest until it finally crashed between two large pieces of ice. With no other choice, Shackleton and his crew embarked on an almost impossible journey. Crossing vast ice floes and sailing through 850 miles of the stormiest seas of the South Atlantic, they sought the nearest point of human presence. Their survival depended on whether a small lifeboat could reach South Georgia Island – a tiny dot of land in an immense and hostile ocean.
In this book, which is published for the first time in Greek, Alfred Lansing offers the best description of Ernest Shackleton's fateful journey ever published. Through the diaries and personal testimonies of Shackleton and his crew, he narrates in a captivating way this modern, remarkable Odyssey which was destined to give a new definition of heroism in our contemporary era.