Endurance
EnduranceAlfred Lansing

Endurance (1959)

Alfred Lansing

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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. The ship became locked inside an island of ice, and was later crushed. This tale of survival by Shackleton and all 27 of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctice seas defined heroism.

ISBN:
9780465062881
Length:
282 pages

Genres: memoir, biography

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If you haven't read it and you are interested in historical nonfiction accounts of survival at the most incredible odds that you can possibly imagine, this is a very easily readable, accessible book, so I feel like this would be one that I would recommend to a lot of different people if they're interested in it.

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