Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
My rating: 5/5 cats
oh my god i feel like i haven’t written a review in ages.
goodreads.com, how you holding up without my pearls of wisdom??
i was going to write a DBR of this last night, because that’s what shackleton would do, but then i ended up eating candy and doodling instead, and that is why i live a life of mediocrity and insignificance and i am not like shackleton, who ran into some trouble on a boat ride and managed to triumph over impossible odds.
cheerfully.
that’s what i love the most – his unflagging optimism and good-naturedness. i can’t even handle it when customers put their water bottles or umbrellas on the books, i wanna smack them like a seal in the arctic. i could never hang with shackleton; retail has roooned my sunny disposition.
shackleton…such wonderful, harrowing stuff…he led a group of men into a dangerous situation and they behaved like grown men and survived, improbably. i need to meet me some explorers. these boymen on the subway with their e-readers and their sculpted hair – what would happen to them, slapped on a boat on a moving glacier in the middle of nowhere, all frostbitten and without their cell phones – so cold that the fluid in their blisters turned to ice!!??…i don’t think they would make it. doomed!! i see all these gym-hard people, but not life-hard people – no shackletons. your abs are of no use in the antarctic seas, mister!! i expect this situation is on account of where i live and all, but surely there has to be one polar-explorer type wandering through queens, looking for a lady to tell his tales of adventure to! let me be that lady!! i will fill you with pulled pork and onions!!
this feels like a DBR, but i assure you, it is not.
i just get really excited about shackleton.
i had read shackleton’s stowaway, so i pretty much knew everything that was going to go down, but i still highly recommend this to anyone, really. except dana. because of the amputation and all. but anyone else – thumbs up.
this book deserved a better review.
but the pork and onions are calling.
