Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
5/5
Basic Books 357 pages April 29, 2014
Alfred Lansing recounts Sir Ernest Shackleton's legendary 1914 Antarctic expedition, where his ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice, stranding his crew on the frozen sea. What followed was one of the greatest survival stories in human history.
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Jim lives underground where it's nice and warm, so the idea of being stranded in Antarctica makes his segments shiver. But what a story. Lansing reconstructs Shackleton's impossible survival journey with you-are-there intensity that'll have you checking the thermostat. The leadership lessons alone are worth the read — Shackleton kept 27 men alive and sane through conditions that would break anyone. Jim burrowed through this one gripping his reading lamp for warmth.
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