Weekly “what are you reading” Thread #46

Struggled to make progress this week on “The Rules of Attraction” cuz I've been busy. I'll talk about a book I finished earlier this year instead.

“Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage” by Alfred Lansing is legit one of the most insane stories of survival I have ever read, Just due to the fact that nobody on the ship died. 28 men lived on the ice in the Weddell sea for 18 months and somehow that's not the most unbelievable part. The 800 mile journey of a 22 foot boat with 5 men from Elephant Island to South Georgia in 1916 is nuts to read about. It seems like every obstacle they crew was dealt with, would end up with either certain death or impossible luck to achieve survival. And somehow they survived all the obstacles they were presented.

I think my favorite part about the book was that everyone thinks that the key to them being able to survive was because they all got along and had the time of their lives for the first months. After the ship got ice locked, they treated it like a party. Even in the beginning of them living on the ice, they were still enjoying their time. Essentially, just guys being dudes is how they survived. Highly recommend reading it.