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He purchases a sturdy wooden boat designed for hunting polar. The Endurances ill-fated voyage marked the end of the 'heroic age' of Antarctic exploration The story of the Endurance and her crew is an epic one and all of Shackletons crew survived the. McNeish, the carpenter, wanted to build a smaller boat from the wreckage, but was overruled by Shackleton. The purpose of the expedition is to traverse Antarctica from west to east by use of dog sleds. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. A small group returned to the sinking Endurance to salvage wood and rigging. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The story is gripping and the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. 'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage