
Endurance
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing(Author)
Basic Civitas Books (Publisher)
Published on 29. April 2014
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-465-05878-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
Anniversary edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Edition type
Special edition
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
657 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-465-05878-5 (9780465058785)
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04/2014
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Person
Alfred Lansing (1921-1975) was a native of Chicago. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, where he studied journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois, later joined the United Press, and eventually became a freelance writer. Endurance, his first book, was published in 1959.