Audiobook Review: Endurance by Alfred Lansing

Endurance

by Alfred Lansing

Narrated by Simon Prebble

FANTASTIC. I almost feel like I don't need to say anymore

This is probably the greatest nonfiction book I have even read. 

Hopefully this won't be a spoiler for you, but it would have been for me. 

I thought that the story was written in such fantastic detail that it was partially fictional. 

Packed with adventure, ingenuity, and heroism. It tells of Ernest Shackleton's voyage to attempt to be the first to cross Antarctica. His ship, the Endurance, got trapped in the treacherous ice of the Weddell Sea.
This book will inspire you to adventure, excitement, overcoming the most difficult obstacles,
and maybe even putting up with the weather in the wintertime.
If you want to sink yourself into a journey of the most epic and desperate nature
turn this audiobook on, close your eyes and
you will be stranded for
just a few hours
in the hardship and adventure of the expedition
to the Ice packs of the Weddell Sea

Simon Prebble is a perfect narrator for this story, whith a rich but ruddy voice that will put you right into the the story of the antarctic seamen.
here are a few of my favorite quotes from the story,
(because I only listen, the punctuation may be a little off from the actual book)

...when you're in a hopeless situation and there seems no way out
get down on your knees and pray for Shackelton.

...the behavior of the dogs was splendid,
they seemed to regard [the ship being crushed] as an entertainment we'd got up for their benefit.

...they looked like three toboggonist, without a toboggan.

Similar adventures:
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
 
Code Talker
by Chester Nez and Judith Schiess

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