Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

9 reviews

imogensinklings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Moderate: Animal death

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful informative tense slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal death, Gore, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Medical trauma, and Confinement

Moderate: Death

Minor: Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, Cannibalism, Panic attacks/disorders, and War

sea_tea_books's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense

4.5

4.5 ⭐

Prior to hearing the audiobook telling of this story, I wasn't familiar with the remarkable journey of Shackleton and his crew in 1914 as they attempted to cross the Antarctic continent before the time of radios and other safety equipment. I learned more about this historical adventure and had chills at the conclusion. I'm amazed at the level of resilience and determination to survive among the group; hard to imagine what thoughts must have been going through their minds aside from those recorded in journal entries. 

Notable quote: "Constant vigilance." 

Trigger warnings: Animal death/murder; descriptions of health ailments and surgery

[Audiobook]

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Animal death

tungstenmouse's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense slow-paced

5.0

Trigger warnings for lots and lots of animal death and general suffering.

This is a very intense account for Shackleton’s voyage. It started rather slow but I found myself riveted soon after. It’s a very human story that I thoroughly enjoyed. Again, there is a lot of animal death and some cruelty involved so only go into this if you can deal with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, and Blood

kingsteph's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death and Animal cruelty

Minor: Medical content

meliemelo's review against another edition

challenging tense medium-paced

4.25

 An extremely well documented account that reads like Jules Verne. I do wish more time had been spent at the end on the aftermath of the exhibition though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Body horror, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Medical content

Moderate: Excrement

Minor: Cannibalism

sofipitch's review against another edition

dark informative slow-paced

4.25

Do you think those men explored each other's bodies while stranded?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, and Medical content

dwager's review against another edition

adventurous hopeful informative inspiring tense

Great true adventure story! The outcome is known from the beginning, but the method of getting there is amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Excrement

Minor: War and Cannibalism

jul16ws's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

It was beautifully written, an inspiring chronicle of the endurance of humanity in adversity. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Mental illness, and Panic attacks/disorders