American · b. 1921
Alfred Lansing was an American journalist and author best known for Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Antarctic expedition and one of the greatest survival narratives ever written.
Alfred Lansing was a journalist and editor who devoted years to researching the story that would become his masterpiece. Drawing on the diaries of expedition members and interviews with survivors, he reconstructed one of history’s most extraordinary tales of endurance.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (1959) recounts the 1914–1916 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, when Ernest Shackleton’s ship was crushed by pack ice and his men survived nearly two years stranded in the Antarctic — a story of leadership, resilience, and against-all-odds survival. The book is regarded as the definitive account.
Though Lansing wrote little else, Endurance secured his reputation as a master of narrative nonfiction, and it remains a touchstone of adventure and survival writing.
by Alfred Lansing
Alfred Lansing's classic account of Ernest Shackleton's doomed 1914 Antarctic expedition. When his ship Endurance was crushed by pack ice, Shackleton led his twenty-eight men through nearly two years of almost unimaginable hardship — and brought every one of them home alive.
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