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My heart belongs to the Franklin expedition, but I‘m trying to branch out! Endurance doesn‘t disappoint (truly HOW did they survive that) but I do have an unpopular opinion™️. I am not sold on Shackleton‘s leadership skills! Lansing glosses over mistakes and tends to give Shackleton full credit for feats that were group efforts (or even just Frank Worsley efforts, justice for Frank.) It felt biased and made me wonder about other sides to the story

1. Stranger in the Mirror
It‘s been hard coming to grips with how much I‘ve changed since getting pregnant and having The Wyrmling. Not just physically but emotionally and mentally as well. Although it‘s still a surprise when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My mental image of myself hasn‘t updated to the new outer look…

2. Tagged. Excellent book about an adventure I could never hope to survive, but loved reading about.

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5 ⭐️s
An absolutely amazing story of survival. What these men went through is unimaginable and they faced it all head on. Shackleton was a rare kind of leader that got his men through the most unforgiving place on Earth. Nothing could stop them and the way they kept their humanity through it all is inspiring. Lansing brought all their accounts together in one compelling book, giving the reader a first hand look at what humans are capable of.

Intense and chilling, this true story reads like a tall tale. Real-world heroism, a brotherhood of camaraderie and optimism, and survival skills all play a role in this adventure. Lansing‘s words are so descriptive, I found myself layering my clothes to warm myself while reading about the Antarctic expedition gone wrong.

Wow. Incredible. How these men made it though nearly 2 years of Antarctic disastrous expedition is amazing. Exceptional leadership and human ability to endure beyond belief.

I can't even begin to review this book. This one has left me in awe of Shackleton and his men. The grit and determination they had to survive and get back home approaches superhuman. No, it goes beyond superhuman. This is a book for the ages. Excellently written using historical documents, crew diaries, and interviews. Stop what you are reading and read this.

I finally decided what to read next. I had 10 choices. Narrowed it to 3. This one kept calling. Ya just have to listen to those inklings.

I probably would have paid attention in my high school history class if they taught us about Sir Ernest Shackleton and his impressive voyage on the Endurance. This is an unbelievable story, and one that is superbly told in this book.

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Wow! I was totally caught up in this book. I can't imagine living through this it was nerve-wracking enough just reading this. I love a good #nonfiction read and highly recommend this one!

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Wow! Absolutely gripping. It reads like fiction and yet you know this is true, finding it impossible to imagine the conditions these men survived. Really an excellent book considering it‘s age and time. Highly recommend for your next adventure read

An amazing story, and hard to believe they survived for so long stranded in the antarctic. The descriptions say the men were constantly wet from snow, ice and rain. I feel they all should have frozen solid! The book ends with them all being rescued. I was hoping for a little more about their lives after rescue, but still a great book.

Holy moly..that was a trip. The bravery of these men and the leadership of Shackleton was inspiring in this nf telling of the ill fated adventure. So well written i just read straight through. For sure 5 ⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️

A little dry and not for the faint of heart, this is a detailed account of Shackleton‘s expedition to Antarctica and the struggle for survival after the Endurance became trapped in ice and sank. If you are squeamish about animal death, skip this. Parts of this were so hard to listen to and the depictions of amputations made me gag (literally), but the story itself is an incredible one of perseverance against nearly impossible odds.

80% through the book and Lansing writes, “On April 27th, three days out from Elephant Island, their luck turned bad.”

Have you not been paying attention to the other 286 pages you‘ve already written?? Because d*mn. This is not where things start going wrong. We left bad luck behind 200 pages ago. We have reached catastrophic levels of “bad luck”. 🤦🏻‍♀️

What a coincidence! I just finished reading Endurance a few weeks ago, and now we get the news that his ship was found, over 100 years after it was lost.

Shackleton might be the modern-day Odysseus, enduring the trials set by an angry sea god. Yet, this is thoroughly-researched and documented history, taken from the party's log books and journals and from eye-witness accounts. Full review: https://lamp.works/bwl?s=B00IC8VF10

What a book!!!

Amazing journey! Terrific writing by Alfred Lansing! Gloriously read by Simon Prebble! I‘m at the midpoint of this audio read and don‘t want to put it down. One of the most compelling reads I‘ve had in a long time.
Posting now because it fits today‘s #JulyJourneys. #PolarRegion.
Gotta go, need to get back to my book! 😀

28-30 Jun 2021 (audiobook)
A rather incredible story. Shackleton must have been an inspiring man to have brought all of his men to safety. It was not until the credits that I realised the book was first published in 1959. Which made sense - I think the wholesale slaughter of animals may have been framed a little differently today. They did what they had to to survive but so many little penguins! Not to mention the dogs.

Final #bookspinbingo card for January. No bingos, but I‘m on track for my reading challenges, and have read 30% of Grant and about 10% of Hope Is The Thing With Feathers. What a great month! Thank you for hosting, @TheAromaofBooks
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Up next: using this one for my Arctic read for the Reading Around The World Challenge. ❄️
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I took your gift to #hiselderliness today @Cinfhen I had to explain again about Litsy - (he basically thinks we email each other about books). He was very chuffed that you would send him a gift all the way from Israel. He was pretty gob smacked in fact! He thinks he may have read the book but it was many years ago so he is very happy to have a copy and to reread it (he likes to reread books - he says he‘s usually forgotten ⬇️

Amazing tale of the trials and tribulations the crew of an ill-fated Antarctic expedition faced and overcame.

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Heading down to Antarctica 🇦🇶

Definitely a fascinating story, but probably a bit skewed in Shackleton's favor. Another read to sort of even the viewpoints may be Shackleton's Captain (a story about Frank Worsley who was rather under-sung in my opinion in Endurance). Also a bit odd to me that Shackleton was more written about as a hero of this adventure across the Antarctic rather than a careless (having forgone many reputable warnings) thrill-seeker.

As I won‘t be going anywhere in the near future, I got my husband to create new shelves for my travel books and maps.

#Snowstorm #NamasteNovember
A great story! Loved this book.

This was an amazing audio book.

Loved this book, and such a great and uplifting story. Not a great reader of #nonfiction but I do strongly recommend this. How did Ernest Shackleton get his men out of this situation. What a hero!
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I've been meaning to read this book ever since Scott Kelly mentioned it as his inspiration to name his own memoir "Endurance". I'm alternating between this and homework today.

I'm going to need lots of coffee to get through everything that needs to be done. ? On a scale of 1-10 (10 being black coffee, 1 being basically creamer), how do you like your coffee? I used to be a solid 1, but now I'm more of a 7. ☕?

I both read the book and listened to the audio 3 times and loved both.
While listening to the audiobook I felt so cold 🥶 because the descriptions were so vivid.

The enjoyment of listening to the audiobook and looking at the pictures in the print book was an extra bonus.

Ugh, you guys I'm usually a huge advocate for Thrift Books, but their quality has gone downhill. All of these were supposed to be "like new". Outliers is marked up and full of stickers, Slaughterhouse Five is annotated with the most asinine notes, the cover of Sleeping Giants is about to fall off & was supposed to be hardback, and I ordered a hardback of Endurance. I wouldn't have paid over $20 for these had I known what they'd be like. ??‍♀️

WOW! I started this audiobook basically because the cover looked interesting and it was available for immediate download from my library. Simon Prebble does an excellent job narrating (he is one of my dog Sawyer‘s favorite readers- long story)The book itself is amazing. The journey these men took was harrowing! What struck me the most was the men and their outlook in such monstrous circumstances. I found this very unexpectedly be quite uplifting.

Sawyer is enjoying the audio version of this read by Simon Prebble
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Icy pressure mounts.
Their ship surrenders her name.
They Will not yield too.

I keep meanings to get to this Love Letter from one of my favourite authors. #LoveLetters #ANewChapter

A wonderful book of a truly great expedition. The single most successful failure ever. Forget the ship being called Endurance, to get out of the hole they were in they must have shown the greatest endurance ever. So many things they did which were impossible! How did they do it? We will never know but Kudos. I bow down to them & all they achieved led by a true great! No wonder he won the vote on the BBC as the greatest explorer of the last century

Time for something a bit different, so listening to this remarkable story. One of the best failures ever! Out of the jaws of defeat and death the human spirit and magnificence shone through! #NonFiction

I have watched the Shackleton miniseries soooo many times but I‘m pretty sure it‘s time for a rewatch.

What a rough thing to do.

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For Mother‘s Day, a chunk of reading time by myself please! So much going on in this nonfiction trip to Antarctica, that I need quiet to capture it all. Exciting and scary, but I am skimming some of the long descriptions of the ice! When I read of what all the explorers did to conquer the earth, I am blown away by what mankind can do.

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Story of great resilience.

Second book completed for #StaycationReadathon.

Although the Endurance expedition of 1914 was an astonishing feat of survival, the telling of it is quite repetitious. This is no fault of the author- by the men's own admissions in journal excerpts boredom was often as great a threat to survival as anything else. It's unquestionably heroic, but just not that interesting to read about.

This nonfiction book tells the incredible story of a 1915 trek to Antarctica. I was completely blown away by the strength of these men and their willingness to do whatever it took to survive. Beautifully written and hard to read at times because they went through some horrible things. If you love nonfiction definitely check this one out.

Absolutely astounding that not a single man was lost during this harrowing expedition.