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Ernest Shackleton

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Ernest Shackleton

The book endurance is about the journey of the ship endurance, its captain Ernest Shackleton and his crew of sailors as they try to cross the Antarctic. The book is filled with drama and jaw clenching moments and it really makes u think about how far humans can push their limits.

The crew of the endurance must survive for a year in the Antarctic never really knowing what is coming next, stranded on a flow they wait to be blown to land and with out the basic necessities life begins to get hard. But they pull through and it really makes the reader feel exhilarated. When the men were talking about how they began to see how what they took for granted was a big thing, such as clean clothes and getting ones boots fixed, and that prompts the reader to think about what he or she takes for granted.

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