![]() ![]() ![]() This utterly gripping book, based on firsthand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, had to kill their beloved dogs whom they could no longer feed, the diseases which they developed (an operation to amputate the foot of one member of the crew was carried out on the ice), and the extraordinary indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois, later joined the United Press, and eventually became a freelance writer. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, where he studied journalism. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. Alfred Lansing (1921-1975) was a native of Chicago. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir. ![]() The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. New York, Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage. ![]()
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