Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Love learning about the ship but they go overboard with all the technical information.
Ship gets stuck in ice at South Pole area and they winter in the polar nights, no sun.
They use seals blubber for oil to heat the vessel. Southern Shine, like Northern Lights, never realized they were there also.
they keep themselves entertained, they each take a few dogs to tend to, they are on the dogsled team but they can't even leave the ship in the dead of winter.
travel adventures, gramophone with no needles to play the unit,
Tragic of the sinking and how they are able to move westward on the ice with the dogs and have seals for food.
When they part into two groups you wonder who will be the one surviving if any.
Conditions are so brutal but the men are just so persistant.
Details are so descriptive and ways to keep themselves healthy, what treatments they use with regular things they have on hand.
Thought I'd be bored, at times I was, no women on board but the men keep the story going with things they are doing to stay alive and not freeze to death.
Surprised they didn't start eating one another.
Borrowed this book from Overdrive from my local library and this is my honest opinion.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
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