This utterly gripping book, based on firsthand 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, had to kill their beloved dogs whom they could no longer feed, the diseases which they developed (an operation to amputate the foot of one member of the crew was carried out on the ice), and the extraordinary indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. One section of the book that was particularly interesting was the first part of the book, which serves as the hook.

For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica. Lansing portrays Shackleton and his crew’s mental state, and how they fight through adversity for their eventual rescue. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. 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. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. In 1914, an expedition headed by Sir Ernest Shackleton. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left behind, depended on their small lifeboat successfully finding the island of South Georgia-a tiny dot of land in a vast and hostile ocean. Get FREE shipping on Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, from. With no options left, Shackleton and a skeleton crew attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 114,712 ratings, 4.42 average rating, 8,479 reviews Open Preview Endurance Quotes Showing 1-30 of 59 No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurancebecame locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.įor ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot.

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