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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. [1]
The crew of Endurance on her final voyage was made up of the 28 men, including Sir Ernest Shackleton, listed below. [106] They were accompanied by Mrs Chippy , a male ship's cat , and originally sixty-nine sledge dogs with additional litters of puppies born during the expedition. [ 107 ]
Alfred Mark Lansing (July 21, 1921 – 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. [1]
The fabled expedition of Ernest Shackleton, the Anglo-Irish explorer who led 27 men on a voyage to Antarctica in 1914 aboard the three-masted barquentine schooner Endurance, only to see his ship ...
In April 1959, Alfred Lansing's Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage was published. [206] This was the first of a number of books about Shackleton that began to appear, showing him in a highly positive light.
The wreck of Ernest Shackleton’s ship “Endurance” has been found 107 years after it sank off the coast of Antarctica and National Geographic has been swift to commission a documentary on the ...
After Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the "one great main object of Antarctic journeyings". [1] Shackleton's expedition failed to accomplish this objective but became recognised instead as an epic feat of endurance.
Researchers have discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, in 10,000 feet of icy water, a century after it was swallowed up by Antarctic ...