Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (894 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0465058787 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Endurance is one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read." --Chicago Tribune
Alfred Lansing (1921-1975) was a native of Chicago. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, where he studied journalism. Endurance, his first book, was published in 1959.. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois, later joined the United Press, and eventually became a freelance writer
Jess Hayes said A True Life Adventure Expedition Stand Out. Within the genre of real life adventure books, Endurance is definitely a stand out. I am lucky to have a brother who regularly reads about explorers and wilderness adventures and recommends to me only the best of the best. Other must-reads in the genre are The Long Walk (though that turns out to be most likely fiction so I no longer recommend it), Into the Wild, and Arctic Adventure: My Life i. James Davis said Antarctica Mission Impossible. (spoiler alert)Action. Suspense. Mystery. Exploration. Leadership. Survival. Willpower. Hope. Perseverance. This is Endurance.It's been a long time since I've read a book that I didn't want to put down. Almost every chapter presented an impossible treachery to escape but by some miracle the crew would survive. As each peril would arise I would foresee some crazy possibility and it would often . Aptly named, this book does not disappoint! Ben I got the book because it was recommended reading for an Antarctica trip I am taking. I found it riveting and did not want to put it down. The hardships the expedition endured are well documented and I found it amazing that they were able to persevere. The book was aptly named. It is also a study in leadership. Ernest Shackleton not only held his men together when it appeared likely they would
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, defined heroism.” Alfred Lansing’s brilliantly narrated book has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance’s fateful trip.. In January 1915, after battling its way f