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Loading... ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE (original 1959; edition 2003)by Alfred Lansing (Author)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In August 1914, the Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic: object of expedition to cross the Antarctica overland. in 10/1915. half a continent away from their base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months Shackleton & his men drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. A thousand mile voyage in an open boat, a harrowing adventure and their indefatigable will to fight back and survive that shines through. Shackleton is one of my heroes. He ventured into one of the most inhospitable places in the world, got stranded, faced destruction uncounted times, traversed hundreds of miles of ice floes after the ice crushed their ship. Those ice floes alternately threatened to smash them or dump them into the icy ocean. It is amazing that in over a year of facing danger repeatedly, not a single human life was lost. I was a little apprehensive to read a book written 60 years ago about events that happened 100 ago (would the language be boring?) but it was incredible. I heard about it from my husband so even knowing much of what happens and how it ends, it was still amazingly captivating. I remarked to him that if someone had tried writing these events as a fiction book the editor and/or the public would have trashed the book because of how unbelievable it was - but this really happened. Any of this would have been my own personal hell and if I had been a member of this crew I would have moved to the desert and become a vegetarian I think! I don't read a lot of non-fiction but I really highly recommend this! no reviews | add a review
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HTML: This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world. Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean in the world and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through. .No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)919.8904History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica and on extraterrestrial worlds Polar regions AntarcticaLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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