Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Library Edition
Description
" Endurance is one of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read." -- "Chicago Tribune" "Grit in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity." -- "Wall Street Journal" "Riveting." -- "New York Times" "Simon Prebble gives each [of the crew] a unique voice, from Cockney to Scot. He ambles engagingly through the calmer moments of the narrative and grabs the listener by the lapels when the going gets rough...Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." -- "AudioFile" "This painstakingly written authentic adventure story will rank as one of the classic tales of the heroic age of exploration." -- "Christian Science Monitor" "Without doubt a classic, rousing tale of the heroic age of exploration." -- "Saturday Review" Alfred Lansing (1921-1975), a native of Chicago, was a journalist and writer. After serving in the US Navy, he majored in journalism at Northwestern University, edited a weekly newspaper until 1949, then joined the United Press, and in 1952 became a freelance writer. He is best known for his book Endurance , an account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations. In researching the book, he interviewed ten of the expedition's surviving members and was granted access to the journals and personal diaries of eight others in order to get a more complete view of the expedition. Simon Prebble , a British-born performer, is a stage and television actor and veteran narrator of some three hundred audiobooks. As one of AudioFile 's Golden Voices, he has received thirty-seven Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie in 2010. He lives in New York.
Features & Highlights
- This is a new reading of the thrilling account of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.
- In August of 1914, the British ship
- Endurance
- set sail for the South Atlantic. In October, 1915, still half a continent away from its intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in the ice. For five months, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways in one of the most savage regions of the world.
- Lansing describes how the men survived a 1,000-mile voyage in an open boat across the stormiest ocean in the world and an overland trek through forbidding glaciers and mountains. The book recounts a harrowing adventure, but ultimately it is the nobility of these men and their indefatigable will that shines through.
