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In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.
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Reviews and Recommendations
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Ryan Holiday Author50 plus years old, this is a story that more than stands the test of time. Sir Ernest Shackleton makes his daring attempt to cross Antarctic continent but his crew and boat are trapped in the ice flows. What follows are 600 days of harrowing survival, first from the elements, then from hunger, then from the sea as he makes a daring attempt in a small lifeboat to reach land 650 miles away, then again as he struggles over land and mountains to bring relief to his men. And when he finally arrives with it, Shackleton simply boards them on the boat and returns home as if nothing had happened. He... (Source)
Scott Belsky I think that there are some biographies, the Doris Kearns Goodwin type stuff, the Walter Isaacson classic biographies. I recently read Shackleton’s Endurance story. [...] Which, obviously, relates to my thinking these days, which is just a phenomenal story. And there’s so many interesting leadership lessons of counterintuitive things that he did that help you understand difficult decisions that have to be made. (Source)
Mark Moses Truly inspiring story of determination, grit and beating all odds. (Source)
Mark Serreze The story about how Ernest Shackleton led his men to safety after his ship, the Endurance, was beset and then crushed by sea ice. (Source)
Bryan Johnson How I want to behave in life. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Endurance is ranked in the following categories:
- #59 in Adventure
- #94 in Biography
- #3 in Children's Boat
- #47 in Documentaries
- #41 in Geography
- #20 in Historical Nonfiction
- #33 in History
- #77 in Inspiring
- #92 in Leadership
- #40 in Modern History
- #51 in Most Influential
- #15 in Ocean
- #2 in Sailing
- #51 in Sports
- #14 in Survival
- #11 in Transportation
- #30 in Travel
- #52 in True Stories
- #32 in True Story
- #17 in Vacation
- #48 in World History