this book is the perfect gift for armchair explorers everywhere. The Endurance : Shackletons Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander Book Mrs. Again, however, the clock was ticking, and Bound had to decide how much faith to put in coordinates recorded by Worsley at a time when a whiteout had been obscuring the horizon - a necessary reference point for an accurate sextant reading. On 21 November 1915, the Endurance, Ernest Shackletons ship, finally succumbed to the.
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.During the next two years, Bound raised enough money to return with better instruments and a mostly new cadre of experts, including deep-sea divers. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. I have read almost every book written on the Endurance expedition, and quite a number of books about polar exploration. Indeed, the voyage ends up being a dangerous and deadly endeavor, and many of his crew dies. As a leader, he must simultaneously understand and navigate immense challenges while still guiding his crew who often succumb to fear and hopelessness. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. The true story of the 1914 shipping expedition to the Artic that failed and whose twenty-two members survived against incredible circumstances. The story of their voyage, Endurance, sees Shackleton against all odds. Endurance by Alfred Lansing (1999) In my opinion, this is a great book We read this story for an 'Antarctica' Unit Study years ago, and it is an incredible biographical/memoir story about a group of men (28) who persevered and in their struggle to return to civilization after having their ship become crushed in the Antarctic ice and being forced to abandon ship to the ice of the Weddell Sea. Read more Print length 416 pages Language English Publication date 28 April 2015 Dimensions 13.97 x 2.64 x 20. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. 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. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. Their survival, and the survival of the men they left. 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. Adventure, shipwreck, storms and survival on the high seas. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed between two ice floes.
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