Lansing, Alfred: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Reconstruction of the final voyage of Endurance, taken from Ernest Shackleton and his companions' diaries and also interviews with the survivors following their incredible trip to the Antarctic. Film rights have already been sold and Liam Neeson is predicted to star. Also serial rights have been sold to the "Daily Mail". "A superb and very readable account of the greatest survival story of all time" Sir Chris Bonington. An audio will also be published to coincide.

Alfred Lansing was a native of Chicago. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at North Western University, Illinois and majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois. He then joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Endurance was his first book. He died in 1975.

Frank Hurley was an Australian photographer. From 1911-14 he accompanied Douglas Mawson on his Australasian Antarctic Expedition and was one of the party that sledged to the South Pole. On his return he was recruited for Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition. He died in Sydney in 1962 at the age of 71.