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|  | Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
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Rating:  404 reviews
Sales Rank: 2005
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 282
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.7
ISBN: 078670621X
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8904
EAN: 9780786706211
ASIN: 078670621X
Publication Date: March 18, 1999
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 Endurance: Shackton's Incredible Voyage February 13, 2008
Judy M (Seattle, Washington)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is not a book I would typically choose but a friend recommended it as "the best book I've ever read" and so trying to determine what would constitute this recommendation, I read it. It is the true tale of a group of men trying to explore the antartic in 1916. How their ship gets trapped in the ice and how they manage to survive until they are rescued or I should say, how they rescue themselves. This is really a gripping story that I would recommend as an excelent read.
A Profile of Shackleton the Leader January 31, 2008
Rodney L. Willett (portland or)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alfred Lansing wrote this in 1959, but its popularity has been revived recently when PBS broadcast a documentary on the book. It tells the story of how Ernest Shackleton led a crew of 27 on an exploratory expedition to the South Pole in 1914. It reminds me of Roosevelt exploring the River of Doubt, a book I reviewed at hungerisgood.blogspot.com.
My recommendation is that you read this book in the summer, outside in a hammock, drinking lemonade, with the warm breeze blowing your hair. After all, Shackleton and his men are experiencing extreme, bitter cold, and this book has the capacity to make you feel cold even on a hot day. However, if you want to get the full experience, go to a walk-in cooler at someplace like Costco, and read it in short sleeves.
You won't be able to put this book down, so don't start it until you are sure you won't compromise your work or family obligations. I suggest you wait until you get influenza, or perhaps take a trip to Mexico. Whatever you do, don't read it while you have influenza in Mexico. That would be a little over the top.
My favorite part was their encounter with a rogue wave. The worst part was so bad that I can't discuss it. The best news is that Shackleton brought all his men home alive.
This book is an excellent study of leadership. Shackleton had an uncanny ability to know the strengths and weaknesses of his men. He was able to control the troublemakers, and that is no small feat when you are crowded in total darkness for months at a time in the bottom of a wooden ship. Remember, they hadn't invented antiperspirants yet.
Read and enjoy!
a you-are-there book December 14, 2007
Dana Stabenow (Alaska)
In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail from England to Antarctica, their goal to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. These guys didn't have any kind of luck but bad. First their ship gets stuck in the ice for ten months, then the ship is crushed in the ice, and then they float on the ice for another five months before taking to the small boats. And that's just the beginning. Given up for lost, it would be 20 months before the rest of the world knew they had survived, against every imaginable force the sea could throw at them. Whenever you think you can't do whatever it is that you must, read Endurance by Alfred Lansing.
one of the greatest adventure stories i have ever read... December 14, 2007
akjerstad (Lincoln, NE)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
if you like "call of the wild', 'to start a fire', or 'into thin air' this is right up your alley. the descriptions of this harrowing journey into the arctic are vivid. i'm so glad someone survived to tell this incredible true story!
Endurance excellent November 21, 2007
Richard W. Aidt (Palm Bay, fl United States)
An excellent adventure story where no one dies or gets killed.
A real "page turner".
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