Peter Roop

Tells what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family in the Great Smoky Mountains about 200 years ago.

Describes the events of the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition when, after being trapped in a frozen sea for nine months, their ship, Endurance, was finally crushed, forcing Shackleton and his men to make a very long and perilous journey across ice and stormy seas to reach inhabited land.