The Endurance
by Caroline Alexander · first published 1998
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In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and
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on “Sam Altman's Twitter AMA” ↗The pictures - http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc... The story - http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Incredible-Alfre... Including the rather sad postscript that most of the men that survived this adventure died…
on “Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915” ↗…never took up playing computer games--and of course had no mobility for operating a computer after his injury. I remember spending about a month, in a series of visits, reading aloud to him the book The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition, http://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarc... which is an inspiring story of human beings facing other extremely tough challenges. I was…
on “Zynga's Tough Culture Risks a Talent Drain” ↗…You're welcome. Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan The Endurance by Carloine Alexander How To Live by Sarah Bakewell (Life of Montaigne) Now Way Down by Graham Bowley The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall How to be a…
on “Ask HN: Which are the most interesting books you have read in 2022?” ↗I really enjoyed her book: https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antar... Her book of The Bounty is excellent too: https://www.amazon.com/Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/014200469...
on “Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)” ↗