Endurance

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Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Travel & Adventure

Aug 9, 2018

Despite the fact that it never reached its destination, HMS Endurance has earned a noble berth in history. And while there have been numerous accounts of its now famous voyage, no one tells the story better than Alfred Lansing. Written four decades after the events it describes, it is based on extensive interviews with surviving members of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s crew and upon the original diaries they kept despite the desperate circumstances of their Antarctic ordeal. The result is the rarest sort of book—a real-life adventure that outshines the most excited praise a publisher can put on its cover: thrilling! gripping! suspenseful! intense! a classic rousing tale! True, true, true—and then some. On nearly every page it displays the singular character of a man unrivaled in his ability to motivate, inspire, and lead a company to light through the bleakest, most frightening darkness. And to know that it actually happened—incredible!

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