![]() ![]() The ship is crushed, they make camp on a floating ice block in extreme conditions and eventually, as the ice cracks and melts beneath them, they are discharged into open(ish) water where they make a break for one of the bleakest rocks on earth: Elephant Island. Hugely ambitious and single minded, Shackleton leads the journey from South Georgia (a pretty inhospitable island in its own right), south to the ice. He knew what he was getting into-he’d done two treacherous trips to the ice before. Why? Because no one’s done it and he wants to be first. It was 1914, war in Europe had just broken out and, as if there wasn’t enough hell on earth already, Shackleton goes through hell and high water to equip a ship and enlist men to walk across Antarctica. “By Endurance We Conquer” was the family motto and they endured more than seems humanly possible on this Antarctic exploration. Shackleton’s Endurance was the name of his ship, and that pretty much sums up the story. Joanna is an established polar historian with previous books on Scott and Amundson and when we spoke she was off researching an 1840s Arctic exploration. We’re both obsessed with historic sea-faring, extreme conditions, cold, group dynamics and survival. She wasn’t wrong, we had a blast, and I will post the resulting interview here. ![]() Comparatively, you have never been cold.Īn editor at The Sapling thought author Joanna Grochowicz and I might get on because we both write YA historical fiction, so set us up for a mutual interview. Complained about the cold lately? Snowflake! Shackleton’s Endurance will knock that out of you.
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