![]() ![]() Five of the Personnel of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition were older, including Shackleton. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers. However, McNish was 40 years old when the expedition started. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped. Lansing also states that McNish was more than twice the average age of the rest of the crew. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. Some months later it is informed to be 57. The Endurance thrillingly recounts one of the last great adventures in the Heroic Age of exploration-perhaps the greatest of them all. Lansing consistently calls him “old McNish”, giving his age at the start of the expedition, in 1914, to be 56 years. The carpenter, Harry McNish, was a crucial part of the expedition and a member of the six men crew that sailed to South Georgia for help. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. Alexander Macklin, one of the ship's surgeons, who provided Lansing with many diaries, a detailed account of the perilous journey the crew made to Elephant Island, and months of advice. The most significant contribution came from Dr. Virtually every diary kept during the expedition was made available to the author, and almost all the surviving members at the time of writing submitted to lengthy interviews. Three months later, he was finally able to rescue the remaining crew members they had left behind on Elephant Island. He then took two of those men on the first successful overland crossing of the island. ![]() Shackleton then led a crew of five aboard the James Caird through the Drake Passage, and miraculously reached South Georgia Island 650 nautical miles away. No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail. They were able to launch their boats and somehow managed to land them safely on Elephant Island. All in all, the crew drifted on the ice for just over a year. The ship was beset and eventually crushed by ice floes in the Weddell Sea, leaving the men stranded on the pack ice. The book details the almost two-year struggle for survival endured by the twenty-eight man crew of the ship Endurance. ENDURANCE SHACKLETONS INCREDIBLE VOYAGE by Alfred Lansing is a 280-page book about a voyage to Antarctica, where the goal was to cross the continent on foot. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914. ![]()
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