The Ship Beneath the Ice

<p><b><i>Sunday Times </i> Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.</b><br><br><b>The extraordinary story of how the <i>Endurance</i>, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.<br><br>'Bound has a natural flair for storytelling and his narrative cracks along with the pace of a well-crafted thriller . . . Captivating and engrossing' &ndash; <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br><br>On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton&rsquo;s ship, <i>Endurance</i>, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all twenty-eight men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship that bore them to the brink of the Antarctic was considered fore