{"product_id":"ship-beneath-the-ice","title":"Ship Beneath The Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBy the subject of the National Geographic documentary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEndurance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, streaming soon on Disney+\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"As thrilling as any tale from the heroic age of exploration. . . Bound’s account is a triumph. The storytelling is piano-wire taut, the writing saturated with polar moodiness.\" ― \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe inside story of how the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEndurance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Ernest Shackleton's legendary lost ship, was found in the most hostile sea on Earth, told by the expedition's Director of Exploration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn November 21, 1914, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndurance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e succumbed to the surrounding ice. Ernest Shackleton and his crew had navigated the three-masted wooden vessel ten thousand miles to Antarctica in hopes of becoming the first to cross the barren continent, but early season pack ice trapped them in place offshore. Marooned on the ice for six months, Shackleton’s expedition to push the limits of human strength took a new form: one of survival against the odds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA century after this legendary story entered the annals of polar exploration, renowned marine archeologist Mensun Bound and an elite team of explorers joined a new global race to find the wrecked \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndurance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Bound experienced failure and despair in his attempts to locate the wreck, and very nearly found his own vessel frozen in ice. Finally, a century to the day after Shackleton’s burial, the discovery: nearly ten thousand feet below the ice lay a remarkably preserved \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eEndurance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, its name still emblazoned on the ship’s stern.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold “with passion and flair” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ship Beneath the Ice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a modern-day adventure narrative of the intrepid spirit that joins two mariners across the centuries—both of whom accomplished the impossible.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollinsPublishers LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52333610434780,"sku":"103868","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/3866\/3388\/files\/81P8E4IvDDL._SL1500.jpg?v=1790974177","url":"https:\/\/museumstore.hmns.org\/products\/ship-beneath-the-ice","provider":"Houston Museum of Natural Science","version":"1.0","type":"link"}