endurance shackleton's incredible voyage by alfred lansing

8,019 reviews The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackletons 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage Kindle Edition by Alfred Lansing (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 18,319 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 259.25 3 Used from 93.75 2 New from 259. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 4.41 In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice.įor five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.

Withstanding gales, eighty-foot waves and sixty-mile-per-hour winds, the sailors overcome inconceivable hardships and finally arrive on South Georgia Island. Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas.Įndurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. ENDURANCE SHACKLETON'S INCREDIBLE VOYAGE by Alfred Lansing is a 280-page book about a voyage to Antarctica, where the goal was to cross the continent on foot, and where this goal was prevented when the ship, the Endurance, became permanently trapped in ice. In April of 1918, Shackleton selects five crew members to accompany him on a final effort to reach help on South Georgia by traversing the Drake Passage in a small wooden boat.

Endurance shackleton's incredible voyage by alfred lansing