Who Is Shackleton's Endurance

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In the book, Endurance by Alfred Lansing, Shackleton and 27 other men are on a sailboat to cross the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. They run into ice trouble and the boat crashes leaving them with all they could take and the three escape boats, the Caird, the Docker, and the Wills. They travel to Elephant Island where from there Wild, one of Shackleton’s second hand men, and 21 other 0men stay on the island living off animals they could catch or kill. Shackleton and 5 men sail for South Georgia Island and arrive the men on Elephant Island are rescued and not a single man dies on the voyage. The men are constantly faced with bad situations that only the personality as a group made it possible for them to overcome it. Throughout the book, face