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Summary: Superb
Review: Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackelton's Incredible Voyage in on par with timeless classics such as Out of Africa and West with the Night in its storytelling, level of adventure, sense of place and time, emotional content... Lucid and vivid writing from Lansing. Tell everyone you know to get this book!
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Summary: An exciting and compelling story
Review: The Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing is a great book. It is a great story. This is about Ernest Schackleton's greatest adventure. It is an excellent book. The book is an account of an event. This does not mean the book is boring. The story is real, but the events that take place in the book are unreal. For example, the story takes place over a period of two years, and the crew never touches or sees land, and lives solely on the boat and ice. The story also changes a lot because it is told from various perspectives, which makes the story move along, and gives each character a certain attitude, because a lot of the story is taken from. For instance, when the crew is on the boat, some of the men do not mind, while others think differently. This makes the story change, which makes the book interesting, and not monotonous unlike some other books of this genre. The book is also well written. Although the author was not on the expedition, he has done interviews with the crew, and has obtained all of their journals which was one of the few things they were allowed to keep. This book is not very new. It is similar to some of other adventure stories, like Into the Wild, The Perfect Storm, and Into Thin Air. The difference is that it brings the genre to a new level. It is more interesting, and has a better story that it was based on. I had never read anything on Alfred Lansing, but this book may make me want to read more. Overall I like this book. It didn't get the last half star because I thought it was too long, but I don't like anything over 200 pages, so that is my own personal bias.
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Summary: Incredible Non-Stop Reading Voyage
Review: At 3:30 am this morning I began reading this book and did not stop until I'd finished all 280 pages 8 a half hours later. A non-stop reading adventure. And I am not a book reader and have never read a book in less than 3 days. What a story! All factual. And what a vivid description-- it makes movies seem pale. This book defines the meaning incredible. IF you love outdoor adventures and have a few harrowing experiences of your own, this book will grab you. Warn your family before going away on this voyage.
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Summary: Possibly the Greatest True Life Adventure Story Ever Written
Review: As of this writting, I am the 218th person to review this book. The 218th person to tell you that Lansing's account of the epic voyage of The Endurance is possibly the greatest true life adventure story ever written. You just wouldn't believe this actually happened if it weren't so well documented. Soon to be a major motion picture, this story is one for the ages. How the hell did it remain obscure for so many years?
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Summary: Incredible story
Review: True account of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 expedition to Antartica that went awry. One of those stories that were it fiction, you would consider it too improbable. But it really happened. It's unbelievable the ordeal the men went through, floating on an ice floe for months without any ability to control their fate, then traversing 850 miles of open sea in a 22 foot boat. The author's writing style is a bit weak, but the story is so compelling that it is easy to overlook. Recommended.
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Summary: The suspense builds and builds
Review: The suspense is real - it is cold as ice - and it builds and builds, in Lansing's superb retelling, until the final climax. Many Amazon.com readers will realize that Lansing's tale is actually a fairly old book right now. It was written after World War II when many of the members of the expedition (but not Shackleton) were still alive and could be interviewed. This book is their story as much as that of the author, Lansing. In their stories we see a bunch of men from the Edwardian British Isles - one of the most class-ridden societies the world has ever seen - learn to work together. These men were not perfect. Every reader will find someone in the "Endurance" whom he or she will identify with. Whatever their flaws, they were able to accomplish the impossible. Most people who read this review will know how the story ends, so I am not giving anything away when I say that it is just as much a triumph of the human spirit as it was when it was first told, decades ago. Today Lansing's book is both a classic and a best seller, a tribute to the fact that we need stories like these, and are not ashamed to admit the fact that we need them.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: This is an absolutely amazing and true accounting of the 1914 Antarctic expedition gone to hell. It is clear that the author did an incredible amount of research, and though this book doesn't read like a novel, its presentation is much more powerful this way, giving a panoramic view of the whole terrible and desperate situation of these men. I don't have any experience even comparable to what these men went through, the closest I've ever come is rowing down the coast of Maine in the summer in a 30 foot pulling boat, and I'll tell you, this guy gets every detail. Anyway, an absolutely incredible look at human endurance, at what a person will go through if he must. I definitely recommend this book to everyone. One note...make sure the version you buy or get at the library has expedition photographer Hurley's photographs in it. Some paperback editions don't, and you're really missing part of the experience without them.
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Summary: The epitome of Murphy's Law
Review: Anyone who doesn't give this book 5 stars is crazy. It's a short read (only 276 pages), but is just enough to tell the story with detail. Anyone who can read should read this book; you'll realize how good you have it. I was outside recently in 10 degree weather and thought it was cold which makes it even more remarkable to think that 10 degrees was a warm day to them and they were wet most of the time! Unbelieveable story!
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Summary: The greatest Adventure Ever
Review: This book is one of the greatest adventure stories ever. Even if you are not into adventure stories, give this book a try, you will love it. From the smartest scholar to the lamest high school drop-out, you will be amazed by the hardship that the 28 men of shackelton's voyage. Unbelieable! A quick easy read that will spark interest in exploration, ship travel, and the south pole. Thank you.
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Summary: unbelievable
Review: A must read for everyone in the human race! WOW
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