A vivid recreation, from eyewitness accounts, of Sir Ernest Shackleton's epic feat of leadership and courage after abandoning ship in the Antarctic.

Sir Ernest Shackleton is the subject of countless leadership courses, mainly thanks to the incredible feat of getting his 27 crew members safely home after their ship was swallowed by pack ice in 1915.

The intended expedition was the first overland crossing of the Antarctic, but nature intervened. What happened next ranks among the most extraordinary tales of courage ever recorded.

Journalist and writer Alfred Lansing's classic 1959 account calls on testimony from the surviving crew members and journals from others, including Shackleton himself.

The result is a vivid reconstruction of what it's actually like to undergo such unimaginable hardships and still somehow cling to hope.

The word 'Endurance' applies both to the name of the sunken ship and the quality required to triumph over impossible odds.