Endurance

<p><strong>The <em>Endurance</em> is in dire straits</strong>. She and her crew had sailed from the Island of South Georgia in December 1914 to land on the icy shores of Antarctica. Now months later she is beset in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ernest Shackleton the famed Antarctic explorer is in a struggle to free the ship before it's crushed and shipwrecked.</p><p>In the beginning days of World War I the sailing ship <em>Endurance</em> had left England to sail to the distant Southern Ocean. Their task: A team of explorers were to cross the great unknown continent of Antarctica a distance of 1800 miles on foot with sleds and dogs. It was called the <em>Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition</em>.</p><p>But at home Great Britain filled with excitement and anxiety over the coming war had turned its attention away from this epic adventure. As a result the expedition was nearly forgotten...</p><p><strong>The<em> Endurance </em>series<em> Book One The Frozen Keep </em>and <em>Book Two The Beckoning Shore</em></strong> chronicles an amazing story of brotherhood courage and survival that is unparalleled in the history of exploration.</p><p>Follow Ernest Shackleton commander of the <em>Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition</em> as his leadership skills are tested to the knife's edge on the high seas and in the vast frozen wilderness of Antarctica. Watch as Jack Robinson and Leah Carlberg two young teens see their whirlwind romance torn apart by forces beyond their control. While a half world away Jack's older brother Edward struggles to survive on the battlefields of Europe in the Great War.</p>