Endurance: The Beckoning Shore: Tales from the Heroic Age of Exploration - Paperbackby Terrill Sullivan (Author) The Endurance is in dire straits. She and her crew had sailed from the Island of South Georgia in December 1914, to land on the icy shores of Antarctica. Now, months later, she is beset in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea. Ernest Shackleton, the famed Antarctic explorer, is in a struggle to free the ship before it's crushed and shipwrecked. In the beginning days of World War I, the sailing ship Endurance had left England to