So, as soon as the tragic news reached his ears, he turned his attention to the “one great object of Antarctic journeyings” remaining: a transatlantic voyage. Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, one of Scott’s former captains, was just too restless and resolute to admit defeat or to accept that the Age of Exploration was effectively over. The country had lost everything in just a few weeks: its naval prestige, its hero, and its objectives.

To make matters worse, soon after, England was saddened with the news that Scott died while attempting to journey back. The country’s record for exploration “had been perhaps unparalleled among the nations of the Earth,” and now they had to take “a humiliating second-best” to a much less-renowned country. When Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the Farthest South latitude on Decem– about a month before a British expedition led by renowned explorer Robert Falcon Scott achieved the same – the United Kingdom didn’t take the news lightly. The audacious plan of Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton So, get ready for a frighteningly freezing adventure and join us as we follow Shackleton on one of the most incredible voyages in history. Also, it’s not about reaching the South Pole, but about something even more daunting: crossing the entire inhospitable continent from sea to sea. Set during this age, Alfred Lansing’s classic, “Endurance,” is not about the period’s most famous protagonists such as Roald Amundsen or Robert Falcon Scott – but about one of Scott’s officers, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton. To history buffs and readers of exploration literature, this period is primarily known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. He died there in the mid-1970's.First discovered by a Russian expedition in 1820, the continent of Antarctica became an object of fascination for numerous explorers around the world during the first two decades of the 20th century.

Lansing settled in Bethel, CT where he was the editor of the Bethel Home News. He spent time in New York, writing for the books section of Reader's Digest and Time Inc., eventually returning to Chicago to become the editor of the Bethel Home News. He edited a weekly newspaper in Illinois until 1949, when he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer. Navy from 1940 to 1946, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism. Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois, the son of Edward (1896–1949), a Chicagoan who worked as an electrician, and his wife Ruth Henderson (1896–1975), a native of New Jersey. American journalist and writer (1921–1975)Īlfred Mark Lansing (J– August 27, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), an account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.

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