After enduring a frightfully long, cold, and wet journey, they finally reach Elephant Island where they must endure yet another untold length of time before possible rescue.Īll hope for rescue is placed in the hands of Ernest Shackleton and five others who take a single lifeboat and brave 800 miles of the most dangerous seas on Earth to reach the tiny point of land from which they had sailed eighteen months prior, the whaling island of South Georgia.
They make home on another floe dubbed “Patience Camp”, but then are forced to the boats and the open sea once more. They’ve eaten their dogs and have attempted to fill their stores with seal meat, and they’ve reached the desperate point where the 28 men are forced to drag their three life boats in search of land. This, however, is only the beginning of their woes, for the ice eventually destroys and sinks their ship, and they are forced to endure the harsh Antarctic winter in what they dub “Ocean Camp.”Īfter enduring that season, they realize that the ice is slowly breaking loose. When their ship, the Endurance, gets locked in the ice of the Antarctic Sea, the men are forced to winter in the world’s most inhospitable region, upon the ice floes of the Weddell Sea. This true tale of survival follows captain Ernest Shackleton and his 27-man crew through their failed plan to cross the Antarctic on foot. While it may have been wise to save this book for the colder months, I for one was happy to chip away at this most incredible of adventure stories little by little through the hot Midwestern summer. He died there in the mid-1970's.We’ve crested the mid-point of our Siblings’ Book Club list for 2020. Lansing settled in Bethel, CT where he was the editor of the Bethel Home News. He spent time in New York, writing for the books section of Reader's Digest and Time Inc., eventually returning to Chicago to become the editor of the Bethel Home News. He edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois until 1949, when he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Navy from 1940 to 1946, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism.
Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois, the son of Edward (1896–1949), a Chicagoan who worked as an electrician, and his wife Ruth Henderson (1896–1975), a native of New Jersey. American journalist and writer (1921–1975)Īlfred Mark Lansing (J– August 27, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.
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