8 books like Endurance
Endurance is Alfred Lansing's account of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition: the ship crushed in the ice, months on the drifting floe, the open-boat crossing to South Georgia, and all 28 men coming home. Our library has no other polar books yet, so these eight follow what made it gripping: hardship survived, leading under pressure, and true history told like a novel.
#1Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Survival from the inside. Frankl on what kept people going in the camps when hope was the hardest thing to hold on to.
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#2Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
Junger on why people who go through hardship together grow so loyal to each other, the bond that held Shackleton's crew together.
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#3The Obstacle Is the Way
by Ryan Holiday
Turning a setback into the next move. When the ship sank, Shackleton changed the goal from crossing Antarctica to getting everyone home.
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The Wright Brothers
by David McCullough
Two brothers who risked their lives again and again on the dunes at Kitty Hawk. Persistence, told as narrative history.
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Longitude
by Dava Sobel
Another true story of the sea: John Harrison's decades of work on a clock that let ships find their position.
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1776
by David McCullough
One year of the American Revolution, when Washington's army survived defeat after defeat. Leading when everything goes wrong.
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Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Lincoln brought his political rivals into his cabinet. Like Shackleton, a leader who held a divided group together.
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The Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson
If you liked how Lansing reads like a novel, Larson writes history the same way: the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the killer who worked beside it.
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