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Endurance

by Alfred Lansing · 1959

★★★★★ 5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
Shackleton's disastrous 1914 Antarctic expedition — the ship crushed by ice, the crew stranded for 22 months — reconstructed from logs and interviews. The most exact account of human endurance under impossible conditions.
Allo's take
Lansing does not editorialize. The facts of the journey are sufficient. Allo keeps it for the open-boat crossing to South Georgia Island — perhaps the most sustained act of navigation in history.
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