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Alfred Lansing

    July 21, 1921 – August 27, 1975

    Alfred Lansing was an American journalist and editor. Following extensive military service during World War II, he transitioned into writing and later served as an editor for Time, Inc. Books. His subsequent academic and research pursuits connected him with polar studies. Lansing's approach to writing, shaped by his journalistic background and wartime experiences, imbues his work with depth and authenticity.

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    Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage
    • Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage

      • 357 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. 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. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.

      Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage1993
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    • Příběh transantarktické expedice vedené sirem Ernestem Shackletonem je nesen přirozenou dramatičností. Členové výpravy, jež započala roku 1914 a následujícího roku ztroskotala mezi krami, propluli v malých člunech dravým Drakeovým průlivem a tři z nich na pouti za záchranou prošli napříčJižní Georgií. Autor využil jejich autentických deníkových záznamů a své líčení založil i na rozhovorech se zachráněnými hrdiny.

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