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Alfred Lansing

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July 21, 1921 in Chicago, IL, The United States

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January 01, 1975

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An American journalist who wrote for Collier's, among other magazines and was later an editor for Time, Inc. Books.

Alfred Lansing served in the US Navy from 1940-46. He received the Purple Heart for his wartime service.

Later he attended North Park College, 1946-48, Northwestern University, 1948-50.

Lansing became a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England in 1957.

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Books by Alfred Lansing

Average rating: 4.30 · 9,902 ratings · 1,112 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage 4.30 avg rating — 9,885 ratings — published 1959 — 48 editions	My rating:
	Endurance And Shackleton's Way by Alfred Lansing, Margot Morrell, Stephanie Capparell 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Endyuaransugō Hyōryū by Alfred Lansing, 山本光伸 (翻訳) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001	My rating:
	Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage [With Headphones] by Alfred Lansing, Simon Prebble (Narrator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks by Clint Willis, Stephen Venables, Art Davidson 3.72 avg rating — 261 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Drogen und Arzneien by Walter Modell, Alfred Lansing 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1967	My rating:

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Quotes by Alfred Lansing

“No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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“In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's original objective, they knew now that somehow they had done much, much more than ever they set out to do.”
― Alfred Lansing, Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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“I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable”
― Alfred Lansing

tags: writing , writing-advice , writing-humor , writing-life

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