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Top Five Books of 2013 (246) » 13 més Top Five Books of 2017 (368) Elevenses (181) Books Read in 2017 (3,612) Ambleside Books (307) Carole's List (330) Page Turners (107) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. An amazing story, really well told. It was incredible what those men dealt with - even though I knew they all survived, I was in total apprehension every time they faced a new threat. Really easy to read, in spite of the tension. This is not normally my kind of book, but I'm glad it was recommended to me. ( ![]() Historian's retelling of the story of Shackleton's expedition, including the Ross Sea side that gets overlooked by most authors. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Love learning about the ship but they go overboard with all the technical information. Ship gets stuck in ice at South Pole area and they winter in the polar nights, no sun. They use seals blubber for oil to heat the vessel. Southern Shine, like Northern Lights, never realized they were there also. they keep themselves entertained, they each take a few dogs to tend to, they are on the dogsled team but they can't even leave the ship in the dead of winter. travel adventures, gramophone with no needles to play the unit, Tragic of the sinking and how they are able to move westward on the ice with the dogs and have seals for food. When they part into two groups you wonder who will be the one surviving if any. Conditions are so brutal but the men are just so persistant. Details are so descriptive and ways to keep themselves healthy, what treatments they use with regular things they have on hand. Thought I'd be bored, at times I was, no women on board but the men keep the story going with things they are doing to stay alive and not freeze to death. Surprised they didn't start eating one another. Borrowed this book from Overdrive from my local library and this is my honest opinion. This was a great read! Even after reading Shackleton's own official account (i.e. excluding his diary) of the voyage, Endurance explained a lot more of the difficulties and mindsets of the men. I think I recommend this over any single personal account. It's also cool that even written in 1959 - Lansing was able to interview several of the sailors - the language was still more accessible than 1910s or 1920s journals. I am astounded at the skill that Lansing exhibits in his writing. I am amazed at the story. Incredibly well-done. I had almost forgotten that words could make me see/feel like that. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's brilliantly narrated book has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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