Kimmel’s riveting account of the Shackleton expedition adds to the growing body of work about the doomed 1914 voyage of the Endurance. Here we get a well-rounded portrait of Sir Ernest Shackleton, whose life dream was to cross Anarctica but whose 27-member crew got stuck in ice just a few weeks into the expedition. Exactly how Shackleton and his crew survived and found their way home again reads like a good adventure story. The handsomely designed volume includes numerous black-and-white photographs taken by the ship’s photographer, many of which are quite haunting in retrospect. (Age 9-14)