By Alfred Lansing
The marvelous saga of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's survival for over a yr at the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time journal positioned it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated e-book -- with over 200,000 copies offered -- has lengthy been stated because the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful journey. to jot down their authoritative tale, Lansing consulted with ten of the surviving participants and won entry to diaries and private debts through 8 others. The ensuing booklet has all of the immediacy of a first-hand account, accelerated with maps and illustrations particularly for this variation.
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