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First edition of the book with photographs by expedition photographer Frank Hurley.

I recently read Alfred Lansing’s Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, drawing on it for my Long View Project. Still in print after fifty years, the book continues to hold up as a first-rate adventure story and a fascinating study of Ernest Shackleton’s renowned character and leadership style.

In my new Long View blog post, I write about the book and why Shackleton — ‘The Boss’ — endures as an inexhaustible source of inspiration to many, myself included.

The post is the third entry in my Antarctic Bookshelf series covering notable polar-themed books. The previous two were Antarctica by Emil Schulthess and Imagining Antarctica by Sandy Sorlien.