# Alfred Lansing
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alfred lansing (July 21, 1921 – August 27, 1975) was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance (1959), an account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.
== Early career ==
Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1940–46, where he received a Purple Heart, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism.
31. ENDURANCE by Alfred Lansing - Chapter 1
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In this week's episode the guys discuss Chapter 1 from Alfred Lansing's book Endurance.
Endurance tells the story of British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his 27 men who in 1914 set out to cross Antarctica on foot but ended up achieving a fea…
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Ep 304 Peacewarts: Social Chemistry 101 - The Stabilizing Crystal (Class 4)
We explore the concept of emotional contagion and how a single regulated nervous system can stabilize a group. We analyze the clinical calm of Dr. John Snow during the 1854 cholera outbreak and Ernest Shackleton’s manageme…
Ernest Shackleton - Heart of Endurance - Part 1
Today we are talking about Ernest Shackleton and his quest to become the first man to cross the Antarctic. It all goes horribly wrong and he never even makes it to Antarctica. But what happens is perhaps the most epic survival tale of all time, revealing the real heart of Endurance.
Not the ship. …
Ernest Shackleton - Heart of Endurance - Part 2
Today on part two, the pressure has been building for months all around Endurance. When it finally comes on October 24th, 1915, it moves through the pack like a shock wave. The stern is ripped away. Water pours in at 6:45 in the evening, and the men fire up the pumps, but the intakes are frozen. Wo…
Ernest Shackleton - Heart of Endurance - Part 3 - Return to Civilization
In the final part of our three-part series on Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition, we pick up the story on Elephant Island.
After months trapped in the ice, the men have finally reached land. But they are still hundreds of miles from help, winter is closing in, and no one in the outside …
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#144 Ernest Shackleton
What I learned from reading Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. ---- [0:58] All the men were struck, almost to the point of horror, by the way the ship behaved like a giant beast in its death agonies. [1:27] His name was Sir Ernest Shackleton, and the twenty-seven men he …
Episode 142 - Endurance
Under the leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition set out in 1914 aboard a ship named the Endurance, its last port of call in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their mission was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October of 1915, however, the ship was trapped and dest…
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