After my last Audible adventure – well, its dreamlike quality felt more like sleepwalking than an adventure – I needed something a bit more gritty for my next audio book. There can be nothing more ‘real’, or in the moment, than the story of the remarkable Ernest Shackleton’s abortive trip to the South Pole aboard The Endurance in 1915.
Alfred Lansing, Endurance. Abridged audio book (Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2000)
I don’t often read books in the ‘Adventures, Explorers & Survival’ or ‘Expeditions & Discoveries’ categories. However, I found this book gripping, and even terrifying, as challenge after seemingly impossible challenge had to be surmounted. To rescue the entire crew from two icy and inaccessible islands was more than remarkable.
For myself, I’d like to know what happened to them all after they got home! Do I need to look for another book …?
Karen McAulay, Musicologist 