Who recommended Endurance?

23 people have recommended Endurance in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Nat Eliason, Jordan Peterson, Ryan Holiday and Sam Altman. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is Endurance worth reading?

23 people we track recommend it. It is best for: A solo entrepreneur who just lost their third client this quarter and is questioning whether to shut down; they need a story that reframes the daily grind of closed doors and small wins as the real substance of survival, not the dramatic comeback.; A retired naval engineer in Portsmouth who has walked the docks where Endurance was fitted and now wants to read the actual log entries about how the ship's structure failed day by day—because the diaries expose the tiny flaws that official reports buried.; A night-shift paramedic who listens to survival nonfiction between calls and needs the unfiltered, event-by-event log format to mirror their own fractured, high-adrenaline shifts—where every detail counts and nothing is dressed up for effect.. It may not suit: you'll likely put it down if you need fast-paced action from page one—the ship's slow entrapment takes up the first third and may feel tedious.; Skip if you want psychological analysis or literary reflection; this is a log of events, not an introspective memoir.; Avoid if graphic animal death (the sled dogs are shot) will make you abandon the book, as it's a pivotal, unflinching scene..

What books are like Endurance?

Readers of Endurance also turn to The Gift of Fear, Food Storage for SelfSufficiency and Survival and Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag, based on the lists and recommenders these books share.

Endurance by Alfred Lansing: Recommended by 23 People

Name: Endurance
Author: Alfred Lansing
ISBN: 9780786706211

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, is a 1959 book written by Alfred Lansing, about the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Sir Ernest Shackleton, in its attempt to cross the Antarctic continent in 1914.