About this title: Following two successful expeditions to the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (1874-1922) led his crew to the region in order to lead a transantarctic trek in the summer of 1914. This book focuses on the several months of hardship followed by the destruction of their ship "Endurance". Diaries and interviews with the crew assist the author in ...
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Edition: [1st ed.].
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. vii, 282 p. : illus., ports., map (on lining papers); 22 cm. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Carroll&Graf
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780786706211ISBN:078670621X
Description: Good. Moderate cover wear with scuffing to edges and creasing. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Tyndale House
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780842308243ISBN:0842308245
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. read more
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"I expected this to be vaguely interesting, but it didn't look fantastic so I let it linger on the shelves for a while. It turned out to be really great. This might be the best true life survival story I've ever read in my life. I read with mouth agape several times; it's really hard to believe that people are capable of living through what Shackleton and his men lived through. Basically, they were trying to be the first group to cross Antarctica on foot, in about 1915. Their boat became locked in ice just off the coast of Antarctica, and they waited something like six months for the ice to melt. But it didn't, it crushed the boat instead. So basically, for the next half a year, they were forced to live in tents on massive, mile wide ice floes that were slowly drifting in the sea. Every so often the ice floe would break in two, forcing them to pick the bigger piece, but they couldn't use the lifeboats because the ice would only break for a minute and then crush back together again. Meanwhile, they are clubbing penguins for food, their toes are dead from frostbite, they are never dry, and sometimes massive 1000 pound razor toothed carnivorous leopard seals come flying out of the holes in the ice and try to eat them. And they know that if they ever reach dry land, someone is going to have to take a twenty foot lifeboat and try to sail it 800 miles for help. No one was looking for them because everyone assumed they were dead. Every time I started to think that things couldn't get worse for them, things did, in fact, get worse. Plus we can't even really imagine the cold. When they would breathe, the water vapor would turn into little ice crystals and fall like sleet. When they would get a blister, it would freeze into a tiny little rock of ice under the skin. It's just a really incredible story. And it's a quick read too. Highly recommended."
"Sir Ernest Shackleton. He is either the penultimate polar explorer and leader of men, or a reckless adventurer who just got lucky. Either way, this is an amazing tale, maybe the greatest survival story of all time, and all the more significant because it can be validated by the testimony of the 27 other survivors and was recorded in the numerous photographs taken by the expedition photographer Frank Hurley. Their ability to survive 20 months on the ice, in small boats, and on Elephant Island, without a single fatality, is a remarkable achievement, probably the equivalent today of being stranded on the backside of the moon. Shackleton's subsequent 800 mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia Island in the 22 foot James Caird is even more unbelievable.
The Endeavor crew's life on the ice strikes a resonant chord. As a boy I most enjoyed the winters when there was ice on Lake Michigan. The frozen harbor and occasional ice floes were a constant temptation, especially at night when darkness increased the feeling of isolation and prevented detection by a concerned adult, which would have resulted in a police cruiser on the docks, lights flashing. Walking out to the breakwater at night, over ice, in sub-zero temperatures, was a thrill precisely because it contained just enough danger (or was it recklessness?), and just enough certainty that there was really no danger at all. I'd like to think that like Shackleton, my fascination with winter "adventure" may have had something to do with some ancient adventurer in the Irish background of my father, or perhaps it was the Anglo-Norwegian influence of my mother.
If you like adventure stories, this is not one to miss."
"From the very first Page Endurance was an absolutely amazing story about survival, adventure, and accomplishing the impossible. If I were to have to choose to remember one story in my life, Shackelton's Incredible Voyage would have to be it.
Ernest Shackleton led The Endurance in a trans-antarctic adventure beginning in August of 1914. What the adventure ended with was Shackleton, along with all 27 of his men, surviving the impossible, and arriving at salvation long after everyone suspected they had perished. The emotion and the pain that Shackleton and his men suffered passes straight through the the text and deep inside the soul of its reader.
There was never a time throughout reading this book that I was not fighting to hold back my emotions. The story is simply amazing; unbelievable even, and by the time I had turned the last page and read those last few words, I was simply awestruck. I quite literally spent an entire day in a daze of amazement and what I had just read. Whether you are looking for a story of amazing survival or one of accomplishing the most inpassable territory, Endurance is the book for you."
"Really simple straightforward telling of an amazing true story. Possibly the greatest true story every told. I had this on my shelf for a couple of years before I actually got around to reading. Once I started it however I found that I was completely gripped.
The scene at the end with the ancient Norwegian whalers on South Georgia wanting to pay homage to the crew of the Caird really struck a chord with me.
One minor blemish for me was Lansing's habit of inadvertently contradicting himself throughout the book. In one sentence the reef is impassable and in the next they pass it; in one sentence South Georgia is uncrossable and in the next they cross it. Small stylistic point really.
My other more serious complaint is about the lack of pictures or maps in the edition I read. In particular I wish they'd included a good map of South Georgia.
All in all though one of the best books I've ever read. I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed this book to read the Island of the Lost by Joan Druett."
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