Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

 One of the Greatest Tests of Human Endurance

If this book had been fiction, you’d think the author might have over done it with all the nonstop danger, misery, and drama.  Enough already—it’s just too far-fetched to think that the brutal existence with ENDLESS threats of disaster could be real—but it is. Their ship demolished by ice, dangers of cracks in the ice floes they lived on for months on end, attacking leopard seals, gale winds, frost bite, starvation, and the unrelenting hazards of the sea had me holding my breath at times.  This is surely one of the greatest battles of human endurance against nature!

Other Nonfiction Sea-related Adventures

-438 Days by Jonathan Franklin

-Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

 

Fiction About Antarctica 

-Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

-The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe

-An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne (a continuation of Poe’s story)

 

Fiction at Sea 

-Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown (still one of my favorite books!)

-The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (my favorite Hemingway book)

-Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

-Log of the SS The Mrs Unguentine by Stanley Crawford 

 

Happy Reading!

 

Annette


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