reading(Endurance)
Nov. 16th, 2008 05:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eorI stayed up late last night to finish Alfred Lansing's "Endurance", an account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The book was first published in 1959 and the edition I have is from 2000. This account of Earnest Shackleton's epic expedition strikes a nice middle ground, giving a fair amount of detail while still moving along at a reasonable pace. Any shorter and it would have felt like skimming, longer might have felt like a winter night in the antarctic. I found the beginning notably jarring, the book started in the middle of the story and then jumped back to the beginning, but other than that, the story carries the day.
On the story itself: This is perhaps the most incredible story of human endurance and ability. If you aren't familiar with the story of the "Endurance" and her crew, you should be. There aren't adjectives enough to describe the tale. It doesn't matter how many times I hear it, or read it, the story is overwhelming.
56. Alfred Lansing "Endurance"
On the story itself: This is perhaps the most incredible story of human endurance and ability. If you aren't familiar with the story of the "Endurance" and her crew, you should be. There aren't adjectives enough to describe the tale. It doesn't matter how many times I hear it, or read it, the story is overwhelming.
56. Alfred Lansing "Endurance"
