Compact Disc (January 1st, 2008): $19.95 Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing 114,712 ratings, 4.42 average rating, 8,479 reviews Open Preview Endurance Quotes Showing 1-30 of 59 No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.Transportation / Ships & Shipbuilding / History.
Biography & Autobiography / Adventurers & Explorers." incomparable telling of Shackleton's travails."- Mary Roach, New York Times Book Review Product Details "Grit in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity."- Wall Street Journal "Without a doubt this painstakingly written authentic adventure story will rank as one of the classic tales of the heroic age of exploration."- Christian Science Monitor /rebates/2f97804650628812fEndurance-Alfred-Lansing-04650628812fplp&. "One of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read."- Chicago Tribune In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. First edition of this work, given to Hussey by Ernest Shackleton's sister, Eleanor Hope Shackleton.Ī framed photograph after Frank Hurley of Hussey with the dogs on the Imperial Trans-Arctic Expedition.Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. Hussey, the flyleaf inscribed, 'Huzz with love from Eleanor H. Maroon cloth, the spine titled in gilt (a few minor stains).
(Occasional light spotting, fly leaf browned, one plate detached). AL 4/3/59'.Ī presentation copy of the first edition, signed by the author to Leonard Hussey.ĬOMMANDER TAPRELL DORLING, "TAFFRAIL". Half-title inscribed, 'For Huss: With the deepest admiration and lasting gratitude. Original blue cloth, spine titled in silver, dust-jacket. New York, Toronto & London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1959. Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.
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