Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is enthralling. It is truly about the triumph of the human spirit. Once you've read it, you realize that driven people really can accomplish anything.
Shackleton and his team of 28 polar explorers were attempting the first crossing of the Antarctic when the Endurance is caught in the ice. She is crushed in the spring thaw, and the crew spends nearly 200 days living on the ice flow, where you are either above freezing and soaked, or below freezing and covered in ice. A small group take a 22 ft boat across 800 miles of the worst seas in the world with maps that are getting increasingly more difficult to read as the water soaks the ink, and attempting to hit tiny South Georgia island.
Pick it up... you won't put it down until it's done.
