Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

by Alfred Lansing

The adaptability of the human creature is such that they actually had to remind themselves on occasion of their desperate circumstances.

Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that he can hope for is not to be defeated.