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Summary The book Endurance Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Ernest Shackleton is set in late 1914 on a cross Antarctic expedition. Sir Ernest Shackleton is a leader of an expedition which encompasses a twenty seven man crew that was built from people who responded to the ad "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.” Three days into the journey the ship Endurance was struck by enormous icebergs and patches of sea ice. After six weeks Shackleton ordered the crew to cut the engines to save fuel, and the next morning the crew was trapped in a sea of ice. The crew was stranded and there was nothing left to do except wait until spring for the ice to clear away so the ship could sail again. They had sufficient food to last them until spring, so they set up a sort of base. The crew tried twice to march to safety. They hauled their lifeboats with them incase they reached open waters again. The ice was too hard to cross because of instability. The ice was breaking up all around them. The crew found the thickest strongest floe, and the crew set up a new camp on the ice which they called “M