It is ironic that his greatest insights are from his study of the Shackleton expedition, particularly the diaries of Shackleton’s crew, rather than from the expeditions he lead to find it. and so didn't know much about the Endurance expedition beyond the narrative of the heroic survival of all hands. You won't find any complainers on board any of the ships, further proof that I will never get invited on any expedition.

By October 1915, she was being squeezed so hard that everyone on board had to disembark and camp on stable ice. J (Rolling up sleeves and flapping bottom of shirt): Oh my god it's so hot, that sun is freaking hot.With only hours to spare, Bound’s divers, with help from submersibles scanning the sea floor, not only located the Endurance 9,842 feet below the surface, they could see “the seams between the planks and even the nails that fastened them.

Not so, as Bound recounts the very real tension and fear felt by those aboard the ship in 2019 when they had to battle the ice that threatened to catch them as it did Shackleton all those years before. Encounters with a variety of hardworking dancers, drag queens, and pimps, plus an account of the complexities of a first love with a drug-addled hustler, fill out the memoir with personality and candor. The Weddell’s ice pack is vast and notoriously restless, and the imprisoned Endurance drifted northward for 10 months.

Additionally, the book is richly illustrated with photographs and maps, which help to bring the subject matter to life and make it more accessible to a general audience. He failed at that, too, and this time it was a complex and perilous rescue effort that brought him glory. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook). Since this the Endurance was one of the most legendary lost ships and the most unreachable due to the hostile environment.

While there are parts that were pretty technical [and may or may not have made my eyes glaze over a tad], overall, it is a very good read and a perfect companion to the Alfred Lansing book. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here. Mensun Bound takes the reader on a fabulous journey, looking for the wreck of the Endurance, and tracking Shackleton's adventure at the same time. Leading an expedition that lasted from 1907 to 1909, the Anglo-Irishman tried to discover the South Pole and failed — but wisely, even nobly, so.

Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, was found in the depths of the most hostile sea on Earth.