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Endurance

Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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Endurance

By: Alfred Lansing
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
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 The year was 1915. Equipment and food supplies were totally inadequate. After battling its way for six weeks through thousands of miles of pack ice and located only a day's sail from its destination, the Endurance became locked inside an island of ice. Yet Ernest Shackleton enabled all 27 of his men to survive for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas - leadership without equal. This gripping account is based on contemporaneous diaries and interviews conducted by the author with these exceptional men.©1959 Alfred Lansing (P)2000 by The Audio Partners Publishing Corp. Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Expeditions & Discoveries World Inspiring
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"One of the most gripping, suspenseful, intense stories anyone will ever read [or hear]." ( Chicago Tribune)
"One of the greatest adventure stories of our time." ( The New York Times Book Review)
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This is a very good listen; because it reads like a novel I found myself having to remind myself that it all actually happened. It's a like a Jack London novel but for grown ups with added humour, factual detail and real characters.

As soon as I'd finished it I started it again

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A fascinating story, very well read. I would liked to have heard more about what happened next though

An incredible story

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Absolutely unbelievable story, how can a group of men possess so much determination and strength. I was hooked from the first chapter, and would find myself thinking about this story in-between listens. This book actually empowered me and left me with a renewed sense of determinism. The narrator is perfect for this too, just the voice and accent that this story needed.

My only slight criticism is that the book ends rather abruptly. With the pages beforehand being accounted with such detail, the ending felt as if the author was told to wrap things up. but that doesn't take away from the rest of the book, which is as beautiful as it is bleak and desolate.

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I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy this what I thought would be just a fact based book, but it really draws you in and tells it so it hits home, it really brings to life of those who originally set out on the endurance….what a story, what those people overcame,
I found the way they navigated was fascinating

A must listen! When men were really men!!

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Brilliantly read , extraordinary true story which I was compelled to.leep.listeming too. I already knew the story but this was blow by bitter blow. The individual characters. really cam to.life. Highly recommended.

An unbelievable cliff hanging true epic.

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