Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage

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Label

Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage

Title remainder

Shackleton's incredible voyage

Statement of responsibility

Alfred Lansing

Title variation

Endurance

Title variation remainder

Shackletons incredible voyage

Creator

• trueLansing, Alfred
• Lansing, Alfred

Subject

• trueAntarctica -- Exploration
• Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration
• trueEndurance (Ship)
• Endurance (Ship)
• trueExploration
• trueExplorers
• trueHistory Writing -- Exploration
• trueHistory Writing -- Natural Disasters and Tragedies
• Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
• trueImperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
• trueShackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922 -- Travel -- Antarctica
• trueSurvival
• trueAdventure writing -- Exploration
• trueAdventure writing -- Survival

Genre

• trueAdventure writing
• trueHistory Writing

Language

eng

Summary

The astonishing saga of polar explorer Ernest Schackleton's survival for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as "Time" magazine put it, "defined heroism". Alfred Lansing's scrupulously researched and brilliantly narrated book--with over 200,000 copies sold--has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the "Endurance's" fateful trip

Tone

• trueBleak
• trueInspiring

Writing style

• trueRichly detailed
• trueCompelling

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

919.8/904

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

no index present

LC call number

G850 1914 .S53

LC item number

L36 1999b

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult