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brycee8f83's review
3.0
(B-school) This book was fun because it had a bunch of pictures, more like a coffee table book. But if you want to read about the story I'd go with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, which gets more into the emotions and personalities of the crew and also does a better job of explaining just how amazing the experience was. Alexander's version is more of a presentation of the facts. But also a quicker read.
wictory's review
5.0
Alexander approaches the story chronologically, providing context for the expedition by summarizing previous Antarctic explorations and the international competition surrounding them. For the story of the Endurance, Alexander draws material from the diaries, letters and later remembrances of the crew. Photographs and quotations punctuate many of the anecdotes of life aboard the Endurance, as well as the freezing hell endured after its’ sinking.
The book makes great use of the existing photographs of the ordeal and they do quite a lot to make these unbelievable circumstances more real to the reader. The ship’s photographer captured impossible, fascinating images, such as the enormous wooden Endurance being cracked like a bundle of twigs by mere shifts in the Antarctic ice.
The book makes great use of the existing photographs of the ordeal and they do quite a lot to make these unbelievable circumstances more real to the reader. The ship’s photographer captured impossible, fascinating images, such as the enormous wooden Endurance being cracked like a bundle of twigs by mere shifts in the Antarctic ice.
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