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book by the same name is just amazing, highly recommended.

Thanks for the recommendation. On a related note, I have enjoyed The Terror, inspired by the account of Sir Franklin’s lost expedition. Also the audiobook rendition is amazing.

Did they ever finish the AMC series? I read The Terror when it came out, years ago, and always thought it would be an amazing miniseries / TV show, but nobody I knew had read it. Then I heard rumblings that a show was in the works and I couldn't believe it! But it took years to get to release, and then I never followed up on whether it was successful or not. Great book, though.

I really liked the book and then watched the show years later. The first season of the show covers the book. Overall I liked the show, though not as much as the book. It followed my memory of the book fairly well aside from a few significant changes.

There's a second season of the show about a totally different story that I didn't really care for.

Shackelton’s book ‘South’ is great too. A Best bought in the Penguin Orange, to match their other classics.

Also digitally available for free, for example on Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5199) and https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ernest-shackleton/south

I loved that one. For some reason the bit that stuck with me the most was the inside joke they had about all penguins knowing Robert Clark, because they seemed to be calling his surname all the time.

I read Endurance many times when I was younger. Had lunch with someone who turned out to be the son of the architects who designed Alfred Lansing's house! I know, obscure...

Agreed. The audiobook version read by Simon Prebble is also excellent.

Seconded.

Also the series The North Water (2021‑2021) is thematically related and quite good, better than 2018s The Terror.

I liked the books and television shows of both but I personally thought The Terror was in another league entirely.

Which is to say people should still watch/read them both.

Although I could've done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnessecary sex in The Terror (novel), but that seems typical of Dan Simmons.

It could have also done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnecessary X-Files tier ghost story, at which point there is nothing left of it.

One of the best audio books I've listened to.

Another book by the same name by Caroline Alexander is also quite good. The reprints of the photos by Frank Hurley are excellent.

It is an epic tale and a great lesson on leadership.

I really enjoyed her book:

https://www.amazon.com/Endurance-Shackletons-Legendary-Antar...

Her book of The Bounty is excellent too:

https://www.amazon.com/Bounty-True-Story-Mutiny/dp/014200469...

It really is a high quality piece of writing. Lansing was a skilled journalist, and the way he tells the story hooks you--seriously--from the first page.

After reading it you walk away utterly astonished that all of that actually happened.

The Explorers Podcast did an excelent series on his adventure.

https://explorerspodcast.com/ernest-shackleton/

The Channel 4 drama, Shackleton, was also very good.

The biography by Ranulph Fiennes is really good.

THE best adventure tale ever written!

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