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Summary: Read this book, Read this book
Review: The author has assembled details from all reliable sources to create a picture of the adventure complete in every detail.
It is a great story, if you don't know it, your jaw will drop while reading this book.
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Summary: I lent it all of my friends
Review: This a fantastic story. Over one and a half years trapped in the Antarctic and not one person dies. 800 miles in rough sea in a small life-boat and no one dies. A trip across a glacier with no food, water and the only equipment a little axe and a coil of rope. Six months on a sea exposed beach covered with bird guanno which melts when its warm. This is the best story of adventure and survival I have ever read. I loaned it to all of my friends..Everyone loved it. This is an easy and quick read. It is good for children and adults alike.
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Summary: Daydream material....
Review: And the raves continue. I was just telling a co-worker that the J.K. Everest expedition crew were girl scouts compared to these survivors (looks like somebodys has taken that angle as already). A must for anybody even thinking about having a bad day, or complaining....
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Summary: Wow!
Review: There is no story that has ever been told as amazing as the one told in "Endurance." I try and try to comprehend some of the obstacles that this crew overcame, but it is totally uncomprehendable. This book and this story is proof that the human spirit can endure the unimaginable and that willpower alone is more powerfull then any tangible substance.
This story makes Kraukauer's "Into Thin Air" look like a summer picnic. This is not a story of one particular event in which people were able to overcome one inpassable obstacle, yet it is a story whereby a crew overcomes obstacle after obstacle after obstacle. This book makes the movie "Rudy" laughable as a story of overcoming all odds. WOW!! If you havent read this book, buy it imediately.
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Summary: ENDURANCE
Review: THIS BOOK WAS RECOMMENDED TO ME AND TO BE QUITE HONEST I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO READ IT. AFTER BEING REASSURED ALL SURVIVE, I DECIDED TO DIVE IN. THE FIRST COUPLE CHAPTERS WERE INTERESTING, AND AS THE STORY UNFOLDED I WOULD FIND MYSELF POSSESSED BY THIS UNBELIEVABLE TALE OF SURVIVAL. AS I COULD THINK OF NOTHING ELSE BUT THIS BOOK AND ITS TALE OF UNIMAGINABLE LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK, I FINALLY FINISHED AFTER A MARATHON READ THAT ENDED AT 4 AM- (JUST SO I COULD GET TO THE END!)I INVOLUNTARILY LET OUT A CRY AND HAD TEARS OF JOY AS THE STORY WRAPPED UP-I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE.IT HAS BEEN 6 MONTHS SINCE I READ THIS AND IT STILL STAYS WITH ME. WHAT A STORY!!!! I JUST FINISHED ANOTHER TALE OF TEAMWORK AND LEADERSHIP- IF YOU LIKED ENDURANCE YOU'LL LIKE "THE LONG WALK" BY SLAVOMIR RAWICZ. ANOTHER UNBELIEVABLE STORY. THESE BOOKS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE.
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Summary: amazing
Review: Yes, I know I'm just another one, continuing the string of raving reviews, but I couldn't resist putting my two cents in. This truly is an incredible adventure story. Growing up in the comfort of the late 20th century, it was nearly impossible for me to even try to place myself in the situation described in the book: a man and his crew, struggling for their lives in one of the harshest environments on earth, with the knowledge that no help from the outside is coming, the outside world not even being aware of the predicament. I imagine it would be hard for a great deal of us to understand the feeling of having one's very life in their own hands, having to survive solely on one's own mental and physical strength, and that of the few companions that become one's entire world. At times the whole thing feels like too much; I had to remind myself that this really happened, people really survived this, otherwise I would have started to assume it was straight out of Hollywood.
The book is well researched and well written by Lansing, and the use of journal entries and interviews makes the crew become real people, rather than just names. The story of Ernest Shackleton and his crew is one of the greatest adventure stories I know of, in book, film, or any other form.
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Summary: Just Buy IT
Review: .... OK, just go order this book right now and read it. Now that we have that out of the way. Wow what a story! Ernest Shackleton what a man. Since the south pole had already been "discovered", in 1914 Shackelton decided to dog sled across the continent of Antarctica! Unfortunately opon reaching the east coast his ship became locked in the ice eventually completely demolished by the ice flow. Cast out they lived on a floating ice pack for five months! When they were down to one small berg they abandoned the ice and sailed in very small lifeboats to a barren rock Elephant Island. Here the majority stayed behind and Shackleton and small group sailed again in one of the lifeboats over 600 miles to a whaling port! Talk about endurance, the word pales in the accomplishment of these men. And mostly in the fortitude of will that one man Shackleton had. Some enlightening aspects: The men on Elephant Island so desperate for cigarettes they smoked the inside packing of their boots. Shackleton dirty, stinky and having just climbed over impassible mountains knocking on the door of the whaling portmasters door and stating: "My Name is Shackleton". I highly recommend this white-knuckle, bone crunching, gut-wrenching adventure story that you will not be able to put down and will enthrall you. I was so excited I also bought the complete photo record by Frank Hurly.
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Summary: Compelling and Awesome
Review: This was the first book I read about The Endurance and Shackleton and it's because of Lansing's introduction that I was compelled to read the other Endurance books currently available. What more can I add to the dozens of raves here? This was quite simply a life-changing read.
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Summary: Excellent adventure
Review: One of the most rewarding books I have read in the past few years. If you think you have read adventure stories, think again. This one tops them all and it is a true story! Imagine having your ship crushed in ice flows and traversing 1000+ miles while fighting starvation, hypothermia, leopard seals, etc. in arguably the harshest climate in the world.
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Summary: Big dawgs review
Review: I Think that the ideal audience for this book is probably male young adult. The reason that i think that is the ideal audience is because it is a awsome adventure that has to do with all male characters in the great outdoors. In my opinion this is a great non-fiction book. it tells about Shakletons great adventure from personal accounts and also from mony of the diaries kept on this impossible voyage.The plot of the book is exactly what happened in the best order that the author could get his information. After going through all of the diaries and interviews this author put together a great book discribing the true trials and tribulations of a voyage that would seem nearly impossible to any one at this day and age. One of the things i thought was not so great aout the book os how redundant it was but it infact had to be that way to show how incredibly long and exhausting this voyage was. Shakleton takes his crew on past the limits of man in his advanture to cross the south pole on foot. However on his way to accoplish this goal for his country he comes acros a road block in which his ship is stuck and stranded in enormous ice drifts untill it is completely crushed. Throughout the book it tells how him and his crew survive going from ice flow to ice flow occasionally using there boats to find some place somewhere in a climate intalarable where they could get help to survive.
the emothions in this book were not all good and not all bad. Most of the men throughout that book had a feeling of hopelesness
But even then when they had few tings to look forward to and they made the best out of something miserable. i think tha6t this book is great and very intersting to anyone who likes the outdoors and is into real stories of impossible accomplishments.
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