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Alfred Lansing Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage
Basic Books | English | 1999 | ISBN: 078670621X | 288 pages | EPUB/MOBI | 4.6 MB / 2.2 MB
Basic Books | English | 1999 | ISBN: 078670621X | 288 pages | EPUB/MOBI | 4.6 MB / 2.2 MB
This is the awesome tale of British explorer Ernest Shackletons abortive 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. His ship, Endurance, was trapped and then crushed by sea ice, leaving Shackleton and 27 men adrift on ice floes. The story of how Shackleton saved all of them and reached South Georgia Island is one of the epics in the history of survival. A superb account of the greatest survival story of our time.
This book is one of the few exceptional -absolutely execptional- tales of survival and it proves the maxim that nothing is so bad that it cant get worse. But also it proves that you can know the end of a story it is a well known fact that Shackleton brought all his men through this arduous trial and all survived and it doesnt spoil the story at all. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, but it is a good deal harder.
The bare-bones of the story are that Shackleton and his team left civillisation in 1914 in the Endurance to travel to attempt to reach the South Pole a trip he had tried and failed by only a couple of hundred miles or so to achive in 1908. Amundsen had already reached the pole first but for Shackleton it was unfinished business. The Endurance had been built to push through the pack ice, but conditions proved too much and it was trapped in pack ice. Summer wore on and there was no escape the winds were in the wrong direction then winter hit and they were trapped in their boat. They settled in to a routine until the ice went against them and cracked the Endurance. Shackleton realised the only way out was on their own, so they abandoned the boat and made for the pack ice at first dragging the boats, then relying a floe to carry them north where they might find more supplies, or be rescued.
In the end they had to rescue themselves and this is the story of their indomitable courage and strength to survive under incredibly harsh conditions and in grave discomfort. We are talking about camping out in antartica in less than adequate shelter, with essentially starvation rations, no heating, barely adequate clothing.
Lansing tells this story in a sparing style and it really works. He has had access to (I think) all the diaries available from men who kept them on the trip and they are very revealing of both personalities and foibles of the various characters who made up the trip and these arent all a bunch of saintly characters pulling together for the sake of their team and mutual survival they fight, some are occassionally selfish, they love their dogs but have almost no compunction of putting them down when they have to and they are very real and human.
The bare-bones of the story are that Shackleton and his team left civillisation in 1914 in the Endurance to travel to attempt to reach the South Pole a trip he had tried and failed by only a couple of hundred miles or so to achive in 1908. Amundsen had already reached the pole first but for Shackleton it was unfinished business. The Endurance had been built to push through the pack ice, but conditions proved too much and it was trapped in pack ice. Summer wore on and there was no escape the winds were in the wrong direction then winter hit and they were trapped in their boat. They settled in to a routine until the ice went against them and cracked the Endurance. Shackleton realised the only way out was on their own, so they abandoned the boat and made for the pack ice at first dragging the boats, then relying a floe to carry them north where they might find more supplies, or be rescued.
In the end they had to rescue themselves and this is the story of their indomitable courage and strength to survive under incredibly harsh conditions and in grave discomfort. We are talking about camping out in antartica in less than adequate shelter, with essentially starvation rations, no heating, barely adequate clothing.
Lansing tells this story in a sparing style and it really works. He has had access to (I think) all the diaries available from men who kept them on the trip and they are very revealing of both personalities and foibles of the various characters who made up the trip and these arent all a bunch of saintly characters pulling together for the sake of their team and mutual survival they fight, some are occassionally selfish, they love their dogs but have almost no compunction of putting them down when they have to and they are very real and human.
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