![]() Around 40,000 people apply each year for one of roughly 1,000 spots on the programme. I highly recommend adding it to your collection and really taking in the lessons Shackleton and his crew can teach. Named after the offbeat answer to 'the ultimate question of life' in Douglas Adams comic classic The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the ultra-modern college, with neither teachers nor conventional tuition, quickly gained cult status. As a work to inspire your own sense of responsibility and dedication, it’s refreshing. As a work of nonfiction, it’s engaging and fascinating. Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage Lansing, Alfred Published by Basic Books (2014) ISBN 10: 0465058787 ISBN 13: 9780465058785 New Hardcover Quantity: 1 Seller: Front Cover Books (Denver, CO, U.S.A.) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Condition: new. This is what Shackleton and his crew faced when their rightly-named ship, The Endurance, halted in the ice for the final time.Īlfred Lansing tells the story in such a way that it’s easy to read quickly, not realizing how many pages have been read until a new chapter reminds you. The optimal working of all these factors is important. ![]() Now imagine your ship gets lodged in the ice and you have to make sure your crew survives to see civilization again. This book discusses dozens of these factors and shows you how to use them to improve endurance. Imagine setting sail for Antarctica in a single ship, determined to reach uncharted territory, facing known and unknown dangers, without phones, high power radios, or promise of success. In the fourth installment of the Lost series, readers climb aboard the doomed ship 'Endurance' to join famed explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew who must battle the frigid Antarctic elements to survive being stranded at the edge of the world. I have read almost every book written on the Endurance expedition, and quite a number of books about polar exploration. Book cover for The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackletons Endurance. The story is gripping and the book is a classic Sir Ranulph Fiennes ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human. You’re open to stories of survival against all odds.Įndurance is the story of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic voyage in 1914. The extraordinary story of how the Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackletons. You’ve realized you need to work on personal discipline, and 2. It is a book that will live in your heart long after you turn the last page.Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyageis the type of book you read when, 1. A Strange and Stubborn Endurance is an exploration of gender, identity, and self-worth. Survival is one thing, but love-as both will learn-is quite another.īyzantine politics, lush sexual energy, and a queer love story that is by turns sweet and sultry. ![]() ![]() With an unknown faction willing to kill to end their new alliance, Vel and Cae have no choice but to trust each other. But while his family is ready to disown him, the Tithenai envoy has a different solution: for Vel to marry his former intended’s brother instead.Ĭaethari Aeduria always knew he might end up in a political marriage, but his sudden betrothal to a man from Ralia, where such relationships are forbidden, comes as a shock. When an ugly confrontation reveals his preference for men, Vel fears he’s ruined the diplomatic union before it can even begin. Velasin vin Aaro never planned to marry at all, let alone a girl from neighboring Tithena. “Stolen me? As soon to say a caged bird can be stolen by the sky.” A Strange and Stubborn Endurance Foz Meadows € 29.99 This item is currently not available through our suppliers. ![]()
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