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Title: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing ISBN: 0-7867-0621-X Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.78 (324 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best non-fiction adventure I have ever read!
Comment: Lansing draws from the diaries the E.H. Shackleton and the crew of the Endurance to re-tell the story of the ill-fated Trans-Antartic Expedition. The harrowing story of courage and determination under almost unimaginable conditions both inspired and humbled me. Lansing does an admirable job of describing the events of the journey from the abandonement of the Endurance and the long polar nights on the ice floes to Shackleton's mad dash across the 10,000 foot peaks of South Georgia.
I am impressed that Lansing exhibited restrained in not speculating unduly upon the thought of the men without using their accounts.
The book is outstanding. I was afraid for, and inspire by these great men and felt Shackleton's triumph as he finally returned to South Georgia.
Rating: 5
Summary: A tale of survival & adventure......every five pages
Comment: After turning over the last leaf of Lansing's riveting account, I was compelled to drop everything I was doing and get on a ship headed to South Georgia, where I humbly paid my respects at Sir Ernest Shackleton's idyllic resting place right on the shores of Grytviken Harbor. This remote island figures prominently in a story that gives revitalized meaning to words like "adventure", "hardship", "soul", and of course "endurance". From the book's very first proclamation ("The story you are about to read is true") to its final implication ("These were men!"), Lansing engages the reader with successively awe-inspiring and head-shaking tales, anecdotes and journal quotes. Lansing's narrative is also more engaging than personal accounts written by the protagonists themselves (Shackleton's "South" and Worsley's "Shackleton's Boat Journey") because their very acts of heroism are modestly downplayed in the first person. Lansing holds nothing back in his respectful tribute. The only drawback is a lack of illustrations and maps on the original hardcover version.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Haunting Tale
Comment: This book is a fine example of how truth is stranger than fiction. You could not make this stuff up. And yet, people lived this story and survived to tell the tale. Absolutely riveting. If you enjoyed "Into Thin Air", you will be spellbound by this true story. This book comes up time and again in dinner conversation. My entire family read it, passing the book from one person to the next. What is even more interesting is that there are artifacts that have survived. Films and pictures. Much like the Everest disaster, you can see a different generations version of the IMAX. Absolutely amazing!
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Title: South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage by Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Ernest Shackleton ISBN: 0786705973 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander, Frank Hurley ISBN: 0375404031 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antartic Explorer by Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell, Alexandra Shackleton ISBN: 0142002364 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917 by Frank Hurley ISBN: 074322292X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 25 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz ISBN: 1558216847 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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