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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage - Alfred Lansing
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long been acknowledged as... show more
The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book -- with over 200,000 copies sold -- has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. To write their authoritative story, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving members and gained access to diaries and personal accounts by eight others. The resulting book has all the immediacy of a first-hand account, expanded with maps and illustrations especially for this edition.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780786706211 (078670621X)
ASIN: 078670621X
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Pages no: 282
Edition language: English
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Dem
Dem rated it
4.0 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
A captivating and inspiring tale of exploration, human endurance and survival.In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October of 1915 the ship became trapped and...
KatieMc
KatieMc rated it
5.0 ice floes, blubber and reindeer sleeping bags, oh my!
Insomuch as a written account of a noted historical event can be spoiled, this review contains spoilers. If you don't want to be spoiled, stop here and read the book. It's excellent. So much is amazing about Ernest Shackleton's voyage to explore Antarctica and the misadventures that follow, but the ...
Toni
Toni rated it
5.0 "Endurande: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage", by Alfred Lansing
This bestseller first published in 1959 and reissued in 1999 recounts the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition by Sir Ernest Shackleton in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent by dog sledge in 1914. Men have to be nuts to be explorers ….The British ship Endurance set sail for t...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it
5.0 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
A friend and I were discussing heroism and leadership. Who are the real life Captain Kirks out there in history? And she recommended this book. This is the very passage she used to entice me: Shackleton... had a talent--genius, even--that he shared with only a handful of men throughout history--gen...
nouveau
nouveau rated it
4.0 Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Fifty years old but the prose holds up. Does the job of the survival yarn, fast-paced, evocative, stirring. Quite the yarn.
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