As war clouds darkened over Europe in 1914, a party led by Shackleton
set out to make the first crossing of the entire Antarctic continent via
the Pole. But their initial optimism was short-lived as ice floes closed
around their ship, gradually crushing it and marooning 28 men on the
polar ice. Alone in the world's most unforgiving environment, Shackleton
and his team began a brutal quest for survival. And as the story of
their journey across treacherous seas and a wilderness of glaciers and
snow fields unfolds, the scale of their courage and heroism becomes
movingly clear.