![]() Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois, later joined the United Press, and eventually became a freelance writer. Zealand Review of Books Amundsens Way is a thoroughly enjoyable and readable story about. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, where he studied journalism. Michael Smith, author of Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer. The story is gripping and the book is a classic Sir Ranulph Fiennes ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human. ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Īlfred Lansing (1921-1975) was a native of Chicago. 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. is a compelling story of leadership when disaster strikes again and again. 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. The crew of his ship, the Endurance, was photographed in July 1915 while trapped by an ice floe. ![]() 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. The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. ![]()
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