Endurance – Alfred Lansing

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age.

Author

An American journalist who wrote for Collier’s, among other magazines and was later an editor for Time, Inc. Books. Alfred Lansing served in the US Navy from 1940-46. He received the Purple Heart for his wartime service. Later he attended North Park College, 1946-48, Northwestern University, 1948-50. Lansing became a member of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England in 1957.