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Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
By Alfred Lansing
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In Endurance, Alfred Lansing tells the remarkable true story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to cross Antarctica on foot. After the ship Endurance becomes locked in pack ice and is eventually crushed, Shackleton and his crew face an epic survival challenge. Stranded on the ice, they embark on a daring 850-mile sea journey in small boats to reach the remote island of South Georgia, battling the harshest conditions imaginable to save themselves and their crew.
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This gripping historical and military adventure is ideal for readers interested in heroic exploration, survival stories, and the heroism of early 20th-century expeditions. It is especially suited to those who appreciate true tales of endurance against nature's extremes.

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"One of the great adventure stories of our time."-New York Times Book Review

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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.

For ten months, the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia, a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean.

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780465062881

Publisher: Basic Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: Basic Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 29.0mm

Width: 144.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 430g

Pages: 416

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Alfred Lansing Biography & Memoir Explorer & Adventurer Biographies Global History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

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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