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justin92's review
4.0
I thought the story was really good. I know it's a real event but towards the end I began to really wish Fate would have cut them a break at least once. I also have factored in my ability to deal with what they dealt with and feel confident that I could have held out as long as to the second page, after that I would have died of something. Not sure if it would have been hypothermia or falling off the ship.
Sick of fictional superheroes? Give this book read. These sailors were amazing and went through true hell.
Sick of fictional superheroes? Give this book read. These sailors were amazing and went through true hell.
elenival's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
4.0
i have no survival skills whatsoever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Content Warnings
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail
hypowhatif's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
randombanana's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
5.0
justmad's review against another edition
adventurous
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
4.25
A methodical unstoppable force of a story that is so hard to put down and so hard to fully wrap one’s mind around the enormity of these men’s journey
robmclaverty's review
5.0
If this were played upon a stage, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
utahmomreads's review against another edition
5.0
It's been so cold outstide. Yesterday morning when I left the house at ten it was 1 degree outside. There is a crusty snow covering everything and that biting chill in the air. So, of course, it's the perfect weather to read about Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to Antartica and simultaneously feel grateful for my warm home and cozy bed.
My friend Jen gave me a copy of Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing for Christmas. Obviously, my friends know me. When there are true stories this amazing, who needs fiction?
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team of explorers planned and hoped to cross Antarctica. They set off on their ship from the island of South Georgia on December 5, 1914 and by January their ship was stuck fast in the ice of Weddell Sea. The men weathered the coming winter on their ship until it was crushed by the ice and had to be abandoned that October. Their survival is truly super human and simply amazing.
I was most impressed by the general morale of the group of men, their continual respect for their leader and the willingness to follow his lead in this long period of miserable conditions and peril.
I watched a movie with Utah Dad last night and it was late before I got to bed but I felt it absolutely necessary to finish this book before I could sleep. I just had to get those poor men rescued and safe. With little help from Mother Nature, who seemed most determined to destroy this band of explorers, the men were finally saved on August 30, 1916. That is a long time to be constantly cold, wet and hungry.
Lansing had access to the diaries of the men and frequently interviewed one of the survivors (the book was written in 1959) so that he could write this accurate and exciting account of this most incredible adventure.
My friend Jen gave me a copy of Endurance : Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing for Christmas. Obviously, my friends know me. When there are true stories this amazing, who needs fiction?
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team of explorers planned and hoped to cross Antarctica. They set off on their ship from the island of South Georgia on December 5, 1914 and by January their ship was stuck fast in the ice of Weddell Sea. The men weathered the coming winter on their ship until it was crushed by the ice and had to be abandoned that October. Their survival is truly super human and simply amazing.
I was most impressed by the general morale of the group of men, their continual respect for their leader and the willingness to follow his lead in this long period of miserable conditions and peril.
I watched a movie with Utah Dad last night and it was late before I got to bed but I felt it absolutely necessary to finish this book before I could sleep. I just had to get those poor men rescued and safe. With little help from Mother Nature, who seemed most determined to destroy this band of explorers, the men were finally saved on August 30, 1916. That is a long time to be constantly cold, wet and hungry.
Lansing had access to the diaries of the men and frequently interviewed one of the survivors (the book was written in 1959) so that he could write this accurate and exciting account of this most incredible adventure.