Oct. 2024 PC Reads

Endurance

By Alfred Lansing

Registration opens Sept. 6

On Thursday, Oct 3, 4 p.m., join the book discussion about Endurance, written by Alfred Lansing. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

Wall Street Journal - Experience “one of the best adventure books ever written” in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole.

In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

Alfred Lansing was an American journalist who wrote for Collier's, among other magazines and was later an editor for Time, Inc. Books. He served in the US Navy from 1940-46. He received the Purple Heart for his wartime service. Later he attended North Park College, 1946-48, Northwestern University, 1948-50. Lansing became a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England in 1957.

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