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| Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | 
 enlarge | Author: Alfred Lansing
Publisher: Basic Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (392 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3155
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 078670621X
Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8904
EAN: 9780786706211
ASIN: 078670621X
Publication Date: March 18, 1999
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 Endurance: Shakleton's Voyage May 4, 2008
The extraordinary record of Ernest Shackleton and his company of the "Endurance". They set out for the South Pole, but their shp was caught in pack ice, and eventually destroyed. Read how Shacckleton and a few members of his crew set out in one of the ship's boats to find rescue for the remaining men. Courage and loyalty in the extreme.
Endurance:Shackleton's Incredible Voyage April 28, 2008
This book was exactly what I wanted and it arrived in great shape. The service was excellent; thank you!
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage April 28, 2008
Great book! We used this book in our book club. Everyone enjoyed it! Very interesting and kept your attention. You really felt like you were there on the ice with the men.
A great read... April 6, 2008
This book is a treasure. It's hands down the best retelling of a survivor tale that I've read. The author just tells the story in such a simple and yet compelling way. The details that are included are incredible. And the story is totally miraculous. I recommend this book to anyone who likes history or tales of courage/adventure. I was blown away by Shackletons (and his men's) accomplishment in the face of what was should have been sure death.
Still going strong, almost five decades later March 5, 2008
There's not much to add to the almost 400 reviews preceding-other than another five stars.
Working almost exclusively with a palette of black, white, gray and blue, Lansing manages to craft a vivid account of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition of 1914. As others have mentioned, this story, as interpreted by Lansing, is so engrossing you won't want to put the book down. (Even after a second or third time!) It's also an interesting perspective on leadership under the most dismal conditions that can be imagined.
A tidbit from one of the one star reviews that deserves mention: there was more than one publisher for the paperback versions of this book; Carroll & Graf, and Tyndale. As I understand, the Carroll & Graf edition contains the familiar secular foreword followed by Lansing's original text. The Tyndale edition has a Christian themed foreword from James C. Dobson, followed by Lansing's text edited for a Christian audience. IF this bothers you, make sure you're getting the Carroll & Graf version! (Thanks, Joel Abrams, for that information.)
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