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|  | Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
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Rating:  404 reviews
Sales Rank: 2244
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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 Incredible January 20, 1997
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read this book when it was first published in 1959, the memory of it has stayed with me since and I was determined that one day I would find another copy of it. Finally through Amazon.com I found it.
The second reading 38 years later was no disappointment!
The desire of man to survive, coupled with the selfless devotion of Shackelton to his men,is so vividly portrayed by Lansing that you feel Shackelton's burdens and his compassion.
Shortly after starting the book you will find your view of your daily trials and tribulations lightening dramatically.
Drop Everything and Read This Book January 14, 1997
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I started reading Endurance on a Saturday morning and after
a few pages I wanted to cancel all of my weekend plans.This
tale of survival on a ship near the South Pole
in cold and harsh conditions is so astounding that it would
be dismissed as implausible if it were fiction.In fact,
I recommend that you read it outloud to other people,
because the circumstances Shackelton and his team find
themselves in are really best experienced when you can
exclaim out loud with someone else about them! One of
the most memorable is the scene in which one of the men
is cross country skiing on the huge ice float on which the
men have been stranded for months, when a 12-foot-long
sea leopard pops up out of a hole in the ice and begins
pursuit. This huge beast moves so quickly that
the skier -- one of the fastest in the whole group -- is
barely fast enough to out run it. Add to this
adventure, a lack of food, the constant threat of drowning,
bitter cold, and men living for days in nearly freezing, knee-deep
water, kept alive only by sheer will, and you begin to get a
sense of what the story of this three-year journey is all about.
The next time you have a cold, send out for tissues, Nyquil,
and Endurance,and you'll be glad you got sick!
A tale of survival & adventure......every five pages! December 18, 1996
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
THE SURVIVAL STORY OF SHIPWRECKED SAILORS IN ANTARTICA August 5, 1996
Movingly written account of an incredible feat of human
endurance on the ice in Antartica. The ice-pack descriptions
alone are worth reading this book for. Anybody who sails
or enjoys the outdoors will like this book.
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