Scotty's review
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
Scotty's review
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Scotty's review
rating:
recommended for: Those who love tales of real adventure
This book does an excellent job of telling the true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 voyage to the South Pole. His goal after reaching the Pole was to cross the Antarctic with dogs and sleds.
!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!
Unfortunately, due to bad weather and merciless ice flows his ship was crushed and he and his 27 men were marooned on ice packs, and later Elephant Island, for over a year, suffering unimaginable pains, and without hope of rescue. However, Shackleton and a handful of his men eventually managed to sail one of the ship’s small boats back to South Georgia Island, an amazing feat of navigation through hazardous, freezing conditions. Shackelton, clearly a superior leader, then led an expedition back to Elephant Island to rescue the remainder of his men. The brutal conditions these men lived through (consider that this was in 1914 where men who undertook such expeditions were truly “on their own”), and Sir Shackelton’s ability to bring ...more
!!! SPOILER ALERT !!!
Unfortunately, due to bad weather and merciless ice flows his ship was crushed and he and his 27 men were marooned on ice packs, and later Elephant Island, for over a year, suffering unimaginable pains, and without hope of rescue. However, Shackleton and a handful of his men eventually managed to sail one of the ship’s small boats back to South Georgia Island, an amazing feat of navigation through hazardous, freezing conditions. Shackelton, clearly a superior leader, then led an expedition back to Elephant Island to rescue the remainder of his men. The brutal conditions these men lived through (consider that this was in 1914 where men who undertook such expeditions were truly “on their own”), and Sir Shackelton’s ability to bring ...more
