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Books : ENDURANCE: SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE







Binding: Hardcover
Format: Import
Label: McGraw Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw Hill
Number Of Pages: 287
Publication Date: 1959
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Sales Rank: 811339
Studio: McGraw Hill




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This is the story of Shackleton's incredible voyage to the South Pole



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Endurance
Earnest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition has recently become a sort of mini-industry on PBS, A&E, History Channel, BBC along with an embarrassment of riches in books, photography, websites, clubs, museums. Certainly the attention is warranted, it is one of the most incredible polar survival stories ever. However it was not always that way - after the expedition returned in 1916 it was largely overshadowed by World War I, and besides, Shackleton never even reached Antarctica, much less the South Pole, it didn't capture the publics fascination. Not until 1959 when unknown journalist Alfred Lansing published his first and only book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage did the world really start to notice this incredible story.

Lansing's account starts with a bang and never lets up to the last sentence - it is a thrilling edge of the seat ride where, when things can't get any worse, they do. There have been a number of other re-tellings since, including most recently by Caroline Alexander The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (1998), however none of these match Lansings for its energy and drive. Most importantly some of the original crew members were still alive when Lansing wrote his book so he was able to get first hand accounts - more than an archival history, it is a primary source of not only the officers but the entire crew. Based on an informal survey of Amazon best-seller lists and LibraryThing library holdings, this book is probably ... Read More



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Number Of Pages: 287
Publication Date: 1959
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