Book cover of Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Shackleton's crew loses their ship to the Antarctic ice and fights for more than a year to survive.

Alfred Lansing’s account of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition. After their ship, the Endurance, was trapped and crushed by pack ice, Shackleton and his crew survived for more than a year on the ice and at sea before reaching help. Lansing drew on diaries and interviews with survivors to tell the story.

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Morgan Housel

Writer and Partner, Collaborative Fund

Endurance is the best example of how far people can be pushed when the stakes are high.

Article · May 2017

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