![]() It was published in London by William Heinemann in 1919. Each Sin Series Standalone Novel features a different couple met from The Sin Trilogy. This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's brilliantly narrated book, published in 1959, has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip. South is a book by Ernest Shackleton describing the second expedition to Antarctica led by him, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914 to 1917. Endurance is a STANDALONE novel but is best enjoyed after reading The Sin Trilogy: A Necessary Sin, The Next Sin, One Last Sin. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. Afterward, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he. ![]() Navy during the Second World War and received a Purple Heart for being wounded during his service. Born in Chicago on July 21, 1921, Lansing served the U.S. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Alfred Lansing was an American journalist and writer, best known for his 1957 classic, Endurance. "The Endurance" interviews surviving descendants of Shackleton's expedition, including Peter Wordie, the son of James Wordie, who says of his father: "He would never let us read his diaries." Ebert's review of "South" is at suntimes.Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In later life he was a broken shell of the confident young man who set out with Scott. The best book about polar ordeals is The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a member of Scott's expedition, who walked by himself over hundreds of miles of ice to study penguin behavior. The physical toll of polar exploration has taken a psychic price as well from many of its survivors. Some volunteered for the Army, and died in the trenches. Launching the James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island, 24 April 1916. When the Endurance crew returned to England, it was at the height of World War I instead of being greeted as heroes, they were suspected of malingering. It was meant to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance became trapped and then lost in that cruel sea. Worsley instead goes through the rescue of the remaining members of. Then they had to find the courage to face what they found on the island: "A chaos of peaks and glaciers that had never been crossed." Exhausted, without adequate food or water, they trekked for three more days through this landscape to find the village and bring rescue back to the men who were left behind.Īmazingly, not a single life was lost. Shackletons Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition lasted from 1914 to 1917. A nice feature that makes this a great companion to Lansing's book is that Lansing's book ends abruptly when Shackleton and Worsley show up at South Georgia Island, scaring the living tar out of the Viking whalers that long thought the Endurance to be lost with all hands. That they survived this journey of 17 days is extraordinary. The old black-and-white footage, retaining all of its power, is intercut with new color footage of the original locations, including Elephant Island, where the Endurance crew wintered in the endless night, crouching inside shelters for six months.ĭetermining that his expedition would have to rescue itself, Shackleton set forth in the lifeboat with six men to try to cross 800 miles of open sea and reach a whaling port at South Georgia Island. That footage has now been used by the documentarian George Butler ("Pumping Iron") as the basis for "The Endurance," a new documentary based on Caroline Alexander's book about the expedition. ![]() Above all they underlined the might of nature and the impudence of men we are surprised by how small the Endurance is, and how the crew members seem like dots of life in a frozen world. It was not a sophisticated film Hurley employed the point-and-shoot approach to cinematography, but his simple shots spoke for themselves: men with frost on their beards, dogs plowing through snow, the destruction of the Endurance in the ice. That film was the basis of " South" (1916), a silent documentary that was restored and re-released in 2000.
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