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Endurance
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The survival story every adventurer should read once.
In 1914 Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance was trapped and then crushed by Antarctic pack ice, stranding 28 men on the floes with no way to call for help. Lansing rebuilt what happened from the crew's diaries and interviews with the survivors, and it reads like a thriller even though every word is true. Every man made it home, and how they did it is the whole book. A must for anyone who loves cold, hard places.
Shelf
How it reads
Moderate
Best for
- Adventure and survival readers
- Skiers and mountaineers
- Fans of Into Thin Air
About this book
- Author
- Alfred Lansing
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Published
- April 28, 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 416
- ISBN-10
- 0465062881
- ISBN-13
- 978-0465062881
Book description
Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age: The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.
In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
About the author
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. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois, later joined the United Press, and eventually became a freelance writer.
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