6/26/2023 0 Comments 438 Days by Jonathan Franklin![]() ![]() ![]() Unsurprisingly, Lansing’s account of the ordeal-which he wrote after conducting lengthy interviews with each of the survivors-is an emotional roller coaster, and narrator Simon Prebble navigates the high peaks and low troughs of the story with gravitas, keeping the listener engaged even when the story feels most hopeless. Not only that, but when the ice thawed, it cracked and sank the Endurance rather than freeing it, forcing the men to travel nearly 350 miles to safety in lifeboats. Shackleton and his 27-man crew were faced with a seemingly impossible challenge: surviving through five long, harrowing months of Antarctic weather in an open ship. Any survival enthusiast has likely heard of the unbelievable true story of Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship, the Endurance, which set out in 1914 to explore the southernmost parts of the Atlantic Ocean and instead became trapped in ice. ![]()
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