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Rent Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
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Narrator: Simon Prebble
Format: Unabridged-CD, Unabridged-MP3, Abridged-CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: Nov 2007
Genre: History - Expeditions & Discoveries
Retail Price: $19.95
Discs: 9
Synopsis
This is a thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.
In August of 1914, the British ship Endurance set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean on the globe and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through.
Reviews
If I could give this 6 or 7 stars, I would. THE BEST book of this type I have listened to in a very, very long time. I listen to books on CD on my commute and this was one of the best in all the years I've listened to them. When it was over, I could only drive in stunned silence, amazed at what this group of men endured. Driving in my warm car and ordering an Egg McMuffin was stark contrast to the hardships these men endured and made me appreciate my comforts even more. How they made it, I have no idea, but this middle-aged woman would not have made it 10 days out on the ice, much less through even one of the storms and other hazards they lived through.