Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Alfred Lansing · 1959
Trapped in Antarctic ice for two years. No one died. The greatest survival story ever told, and it is all true.
The case against
Lansing wrote hero worship with a straight face: Shackleton can do no wrong, the men grumble but never truly fracture, and the expedition's other party, in which men actually died, barely figures. Months of ice drift make for months of reading about ice drift. Thrilling at launch and rescue, becalmed across the middle, and far too trusting of its sources' loyalty.
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