June, 2022: "Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing
Author: Alfred Lansing | |
Genre: Non-fiction | |
Published: 1959 | |
Pages: 268 | |
Reading started: May 29th, 2022 | |
Current progress: Page 268 of 268 (100%) | |
Reading ended: June 26th, 2022. This book was successfully finished in 28 days. | |
Effective reading time: 8 hours, 2 minutes (1 minute, 48 seconds per page) | |
Number of sessions: 29 | |
Average session reading time: 16 minutes, 5 seconds | |
Average session review score: 4.5 of 5 | |
Final review score: 5 of 5 |
Description
Amazon.com:In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, 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.