Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

if you like "call of the wild', 'to start a fire', or 'into thin air' this is right up your alley. the descriptions of this harrowing journey into the arctic are vivid. i'm so glad someone survived to tell this incredible true story!

An excellent adventure story where no one dies or gets killed.
A real "page turner".

Endurance by Alfred Lansing is a truly wonderful story. I am an eleven year old sixth grader who thinks every talented reader 10-81 would enjoy Endurance. The vocabulary is exquisite and the writing is advanced. The quality of the story is such that you feel like you're right there in Antarctica! You begin to form strong connections with the characters as well. One of the greatest things about it is that this is the true account of the Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition. All the toil the crew went through really happened. If you choose to read this book, be ready for an amazing story where you'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time!

People bandy about the word "classic" without considering its significance, but this all-time bestseller will remain in print many more years. It's a true classic, ranking among the top adventure books. Nowhere will you find a more gripping account than Endurance, the survival story of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men, in 1915. This cliff-hanger of a book stays with you. Could it be that today's leaders pale beside the likes of Shackleton?

Shackleton is always calm. He is resourceful and undaunted. He is not always right, many times he is just absolutely wrong. But his courage is simply breathtaking.

You must know many British famous sentences as those: "I am going out and will be for some time" or "Dr Livingstone, I presume".

Shackleton probably did not utter so famous remark. But still his above-the-all-odds behaviour makes him one of the greatest British heroes. And the mankind's. Read the story you will never forget. Read and think, how you could possibly behave in those utmost terrifying circumstances.