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An account of a scarily real expedition. Some parts weren’t as exciting as others, describing some monotony / uneventfulness in the days and listing store items, causing me to tune out at times. It did describe the environment well, enabling you to visualise how it must of felt. I also leant quite a bit from the book such as navigation, sailing terms, ways to protect self in harsh environments, and geography. Overall, I enjoyed this book, but not one I would repeatedly listen to. i'd recommend this to anyone who likes survival stories.

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Gotta love Chpr 7

Great storey, shows what you can achiev and what you should do, narrative very good.

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Wonderfully Told Bringing History To Life

Apsolutely loved it had me gripped and at the same time I was awe of these brave young men and their superhuman tenacity

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fantastic endeavour

the story is what I expected though it took me a long time to get into it and I found it quite easy two doze off to the reader. weather reader is very in Keeping with time period of the book.

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South

Very interesting, glad I found this book. Will definitely look for similar titles. Good narrator

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Non-fiction outshining fiction

Marvellous. Ernest Shackleton’s own log from his failed attempt to traverse Antarctica. It’s practically all maritime. We learn about the many different kinds of ice & its weird effects, the ship and boats, the sea, the uncanny penguins, the dogs, and each member of the crew and the unbelievable ways they cheated death. The killer whales and the beach of Elephant Island are the stuff of nightmares. . Non fiction easily outshining fiction.

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Brilliant brilliant brilliant

Utterly brilliant. Like the Endurance, I was gripped from the start. Awe-inspiring and inspiring. Sublime, in the only sense of the word.

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A Worthy Addition to the Library

Well worth listening to as an addition to the story of Shackleton and his epic adventure.

Great narration helps keep things moving.

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Truly Magnificent

I first read this account in a 1971 hard back edition. I have read it several times since and now I listen to it. It really is one of the most thrilling and magnificent stories of determination, courage and stress management I have ever had the joy to share. A two year mission cut short before it even starts by bad luck, the elements turning on you with a savage vengeance, no food or resources, a map two compasses and a sextant. No sun for months and a 2000 mile walk into the 40 below zero wind pulling several half ton boats across the ice.

Frost bit, hunger, exhaustion and above all courage. From simple ordinary men thousands of miles from home. No radio, no air support, no one even knows you’re in such distress yet. You will be dead before they even know you’re missing. But Shackleton kept this team alive. Feats of navigation that cannot even be simulated now. Seamanship that defies all understanding, but above all a will to survive and a determination to lead.

Perhaps we are now too cynical and sophisticated for such a story? And then I remind myself again, this is not fiction its fact. This is courage and adventure and leadership at its best. Written in real time from the diary kept diligently by the great man himself. Dump everything he said before the march across the ice. Where we are going even gold is worthless. But keep your diaries, if dying is the last thing we do, I want the world to find it didn't happen without a fight.

Get it, listen to it. It really will change your character for the better.

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Astounding tale of the journey of these men.

I listened to this with very little foreknowledge of the outcome. So the tale kept me on the edge of my seat as to what would happen.
The account is a fascinating view of different times, attitudes, technologies, knowledge of the world, and above all the unforgiving conditions at the Antarctic.
This is in the form of a diary, but very well written, that reads just like a novel. The narrator is perfectly suited and could be Shackleton himself.
What sticks with me is the incredible conditions endured (without giving too much away) so if you are into explorers, overcoming adversity, survival, seafaring tales, and old fashioned british empire stories then this could well be for you.
I loved it and was gripped throughout.
It certainly makes you realise what easy lives we have in comparison!

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