My friend Henk sent this in:
"Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage" by Alfred Lansing
EXPLORATION • 1998 • PAPER • 280 PAGES • BEST SELLER • FAVORITE
An extraordinary tale of survival that reads like a good novel. It's the gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton's legendary perseverance: losing his ship in the ice, drifting helplessly across the Weddell Sea, and finally reaching Elephant Island, from where he sailed 800 miles to South Georgia to get help for his stranded men. With maps and a 8-page selection of Frank Hurley photographs.
And I myself forgot another one:
"The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty," by Caroline Alexander. I always thought Capt. William Bligh got a bad rap. Caroline Alexander re-examines the famous mutiny from original documents and much investigation. Bligh is set adrift in the middle of the South Pacific with eighteen crew members who refuse to take part in the mutiny, and no compass, charts, or navigational instruments. After one of them is murdered in Fiji, Bligh relying on his own abilities in dead reckoning, navigates 2,700 miles to Coupang, South Timor, without losing another crew member. It is the longest voyage in an open boat recorded in the history of the British Admiralty. Now that's an arduous voyage. Stiff upper lip and all that, you know? That will be all for now -- carry on.
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