Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage in Never too Late to Read Classics

Dec 12, 2011 Chrissie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audible-us, bio, bad-trip, 2013-read, polar

This was exciting! I recommend this book to those who want to throw themselves into another world, albeit a world cold, wet, icy and filled with fear, exhaustion and hunger.

Ernest Shackleton set out in 1914 to cross the Antarctic from west to east. Yes, WW1 had broken out and he had Churchill’s go-ahead Why? For the glory of Britain and for his own glory too. The race for polar discovery was in full-swing. On December 14, 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first successful expe ...more

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Jan 31, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: adventure, fiction-20th-century, history, viciados-em-livros, e-books, kindle, american-fiction, read-2014, travel, antarctica

The unbelievable and tragical story of the Ernest Shackleton's expedition to Antarctica and their struggle to survive for an interminable period of time.

The book describes the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–17) his third expedition, also known as the Endurance Expedition.

Endurance became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea before reaching Vahsel Bay held in the pack ice throughout the Antarctic winter of 1915. ...more

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Jul 11, 2016 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bios-memoirs, favorites, nonfiction

Shakleton & his men were brave, skilled (perhaps slightly insane) adventurers. Their fortitude and dauntless courage is stunning. They faced severe medical conditions including a heart attack and frostbite bad enough to require amputation. They lived with very little food and water, obscenely cold temperatures, constantly wet clothing and bedding, and few tools. As their journey became more dire these men became stronger physically and mentally. They showed the type of mental commitment that few ...more

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