Mensun Bound

THIS IS A YEOVIL LITERARY FESTIVAL 2022 EVENT
WESTLANDS MAIN HALL

Mensun Bound - The Ship Beneath the Ice

On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, finally succumbed to the immense pressures of the surrounding ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, just like that, it was gone. Over a century later, an audacious plan to locate the ship was hatched. It would finally succeed in March 2022, to headlines all over the world. In The Ship Beneath The Ice, marine archaeologist Mensun Bound gives a blow-by-blow account of the two dramatic expeditions he led to find the ship in what Shackleton called ‘the most hostile sea on Earth’. As with Shackleton, Bound too experienced failure and despair, and at times his own ship was on the cusp of being frozen in ice, much like the Endurance.

Tickets: £12
Footlights: Discount Applies

A £1.50 ticket levy is included in all stated ticket prices.

Yeovil Literary Festival Events last approximately 60 minutes.