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Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)
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- signa11 3y agobook by the same name is just amazing, highly recommended.
- dackle 3y agoAgreed. The audiobook version read by Simon Prebble is also excellent.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoSeconded. Also the series The North Water (2021‑2021) is thematically related and quite good, better than 2018s The Terror.
- brenainn 3y agoI liked the books and television shows of both but I personally thought The Terror was in another league entirely. Which is to say people should still watch/read them both. Although I could've done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnessecary sex in The Terror (novel), but that seems typical of Dan Simmons.
- MrBuddyCasino 3y agoIt could have also done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnecessary X-Files tier ghost story, at which point there is nothing left of it.
- noufalibrahim 3y agoOne of the best audio books I've listened to.
- tunnuz 3y agoThanks for the recommendation. On a related note, I have enjoyed The Terror, inspired by the account of Sir Franklin’s lost expedition. Also the audiobook rendition is amazing.
- jihadjihad 3y agoDid they ever finish the AMC series? I read The Terror when it came out, years ago, and always thought it would be an amazing miniseries / TV show, but nobody I knew had read it. Then I heard rumblings that a show was in the works and I couldn't believe it! But it took years to get to release, and then I never followed up on whether it was successful or not. Great book, though.
- rurp 3y agoI really liked the book and then watched the show years later. The first season of the show covers the book. Overall I liked the show, though not as much as the book. It followed my memory of the book fairly well aside from a few significant changes. There's a second season of the show about a totally different story that I didn't really care for.
- lostlogin 3y agoShackelton’s book ‘South’ is great too. A Best bought in the Penguin Orange, to match their other classics.
- Someone 3y agoAlso digitally available for free, for example on Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199) and https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-shackleton/south https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-shackleton/south
- donpott 3y agoI loved that one. For some reason the bit that stuck with me the most was the inside joke they had about all penguins knowing Robert Clark, because they seemed to be calling his surname all the time.
- timthorn 3y agoThe Channel 4 drama, Shackleton, was also very good.
- McDyver 3y agoThe Explorers Podcast did an excelent series on his adventure. https://explorerspodcast.com/ernest-shackleton/ https://explorerspodcast.com/ernest-shackleton/
- netman21 3y agoI read Endurance many times when I was younger. Had lunch with someone who turned out to be the son of the architects who designed Alfred Lansing's house! I know, obscure...
- Antipodes456 3y agoTHE best adventure tale ever written!
- EdwardDiego 3y agoThe biography by Ranulph Fiennes is really good.
- jihadjihad 3y agoIt really is a high quality piece of writing. Lansing was a skilled journalist, and the way he tells the story hooks you--seriously--from the first page. After reading it you walk away utterly astonished that all of that actually happened.
- deltarholamda 3y agoAnother book by the same name by Caroline Alexander is also quite good. The reprints of the photos by Frank Hurley are excellent. It is an epic tale and a great lesson on leadership.
- qingcharles 3y agoI really enjoyed her book: https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antarctic-Expedition/dp/0375404031/ https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antar... Her book of The Bounty is excellent too: https://www.amazon.com/Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/0142004693/ https://www.amazon.com/Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/014200469...
- grumblepeet 3y agoMy partner’s great uncle Perce (Blackborow) was one of the crew. He was the one you see in the pictures with Mrs Chippy the ship’s cat sat on his shoulder. Originally a stowaway he became steward. Lost quite a few toes to frostbite. When he returned to Newport he declared that he would never leave it again and as far as I know never did.
- dieselgate 3y agoWow the stowaway! That’s pretty amazing and a very unique part of the story. Perhaps more common in those times? Read the book years ago and it’s still the most jaw dropping story.
- arethuza 3y agoMrs Chippy has a pretty interesting Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs_Chippy
- philk10 3y agoI first read this as the cat becoming a steward and losing toes to frostbite...
- tootie 3y agoEvery time I read about the tale of Shackleton all I think about is how he risked it he lives and limbs of his crew for personal vanity. I'm sure he was charismatic but I can't help but think he was an complete asshole in absolute terms.
- jf 3y agoAre there more photos of the Endurance shipwreck online somewhere?
- dieselgate 3y agoHoly cow my body is in chills seeing the picture of the stern.
- pluc 3y agoCould be worse, the Terror and Erebus are also out there. At least Endurance doesn't have a terrifying name. https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/culture/archeologie-archeology/recherche-search https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/culture/arch...
- jkic47 3y agoThis is a huge discovery. I can't wait for the day when someone finds the MH370 wreck as well
- TomK32 3y agoJust think of the other things they'll find before finding MH370!
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- isolli 3y agoI always recommend Shackleton's book "South". It is a riveting account of his failed expedition to the South pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_(book)
- s_dev 3y agoWhile they never achieved their primary goal I find it difficult to describe the 'expedition' as a failure. That story of three men getting in a row boat and trying to sail to South Africa from Elephant Island leaving the others behind with only THREE sightings for navigation absolutely incredible. That's 000s of miles of open ocean water in a row boat being steered really with just intuition. I can't even begin to fathom the knowledge and experience required for such a journey.
- fifilura 3y agoThey sailed to South Georgia.
- s_dev 3y agoThis is correct, I don't know why I said South Africa.
- isolli 3y agoAgreed, this was the most stunning part (and they climbed an icy mountain right after). It reminds me of the beautiful story of the last (traditional) master navigator in the Pacific ocean, Mau Piailug: https://www.economist.com/obituary/2010/07/22/mau-piailug https://www.economist.com/obituary/2010/07/22/mau-piailug
- sizzzzlerz 3y agoThe Shackleton story is one of the greatest tales of survival and rescue of the 20th century, if not for all time. This discovery is as amazing and significant as the locating of the Titanic or the K-129 submarine. In those waters, the Endurance should remain intact for centuries.
- mywacaday 3y agoIf you ever get a chance to see the one man stage show based on the life of Tom Crean(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_(explorer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_(explorer)) do it. Its an amazing and entertaining insight into the journeys and especially the 800 mile rescue journey in a small lifeboat in the southern ocean and the climb over the mountains of South Georgia.
- sdenton4 3y agoThe book 'Endurance', written from interviews with the survivors, is absolutely gripping. My partner and I read the whole thing out loud over the course of about a week - like binge watching a series.
- wainstead 3y agoAnd, it's a great picture book as well. https://www.davidspilmanfinebooks.com/pages/books/13948/caroline-alexander/the-endurance-shackleton-s-legendary-antarctic-expedition https://www.davidspilmanfinebooks.com/pages/books/13948/caro...
- metadat 3y ago> Thanks to Shackleton’s efforts and those of his crew, all 28 men survived and were rescued in 1917. The men survived in the antarctic for 2 years until rescue? (ship sank 1915, rescued in 1917) That's insane, what did they eat? How did they stay warm?
- SamPatt 3y agoRead (or listen to) Endurance by Alfred Lansing. It's truly a great story.
- karaterobot 3y agoThey made a shelter out of their rowboats and survived by eating seal and penguin meat. They didn't stay very warm at all. I imagine their heat sources were body heat and fires fueled by seal blubber. Source: I read Alfred Lansing's book Endurance about 25 years ago, and skimmed the Wikipedia page just now, so as you can tell I'm something of an expert.
- doctorwho42 3y agoRead endurance. This is the most impressive survival feat and example of true leadership, every - single - one of his crew survived... The dude converted a large row boat into a sea going vessel and crossed the worst seas in the world just to get to elephant island (100+ miles? Away) - only to have to mountaineer without gear over a mountain to get to a whaling station. But not just mountaineering, they got up into the mountains only for a terrible snow storm start to stir up... They then used frozen rope as a sled.... Man read the book, it's like jaw dropping... Not based on a true story - shit is a true story
- fifilura 3y agoYou should also read up on Nansen wintering in the Arctic. Shackleton is a story about leadership. Nansen about pure survival (and some mind boggling bravery bordering stupidity) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nansen%27s_Fram_expedition
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- ElevenLathe 3y agoHas anyone else noticed that this story is like catnip for clueless tech executives? Several companies now, I've had to endure lectures from management analogizing our $pedestrian_it_project as being so like the Endurance expedition that we simply MUST read the book. Many managers agree that burning down JIRA tickets is exactly like having to boil and eat your own boots in order to survive.
- doctorwho42 3y agoAhahaha what?!? That can't be real. The only time I have ever had it brought up in a context of leadership was in the boy scouts - and the lesson was about determination, support, etc. in survival situations... Not shipping product lmao
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- jajko 3y agoIf managers peddle such a book in IT, just run (unless you can earn FU money in very short time, then yes suck it up and take inspiration from that book). What they are actually saying - please do suffer for us, whether it be crazy overtimes or other abuse. This is not what you, nor anybody else should be doing for any IT job (or any job for that matter). Vote with your feet.
- ElevenLathe 3y agoSometimes you just have to grin and bare it, particularly something as harmless as overweight VPs imagining they are hypermasculine arctic explorers. All jobs are mostly cosplay, management doubly so.
- paulio 3y ago"All jobs are mostly cosplay, management doubly so." - What an excellent way of describing it.
- johnea 3y agoAs a sailor, I find the Shackleton story to be amazing! But I always wonder, was it worth $10M to find a sunken shipwreck? It's nice that an "anonymous private individual" has $10M to throw around, but I still can't help but feel there are ore productive ways to spend that money. Of course, space ships and arctic exploration are high on the "gee wiz" and "nifty" childlike arm chair explorers wish lists, but what a waste of resoureces...