Shackleton's Endurance: The Ship Sank and All Twenty-Eight Men Came Home

In 1915 the Endurance was crushed by Weddell Sea ice, and twenty-eight men were left on the floes with three lifeboats. Shackleton picked the least terrible option: a seven-metre open boat, 1,300 kilometres of the coldest water on Earth, and a navigator who steered by rare glimpses of the sun.