(DeKalb) – On Thursday, September 11, at 7:00 p.m., the DeKalb Public Library’s General Book Club will discuss Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by 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.
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.
In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
Copies of the book and book on CD will be available in the library one month before the program. The e-book is available with the eReadIllinois Boundless app. The e-audio is available on the Libby by Overdrive or hoopladigital apps.
This book club is intended for adults. No registration is required. It will be held in the Nancy D. Castle Collaboration Studio.
For additional information, please contact Susan at susang@dkpl.org or at (815) 756-9568 ext. 2114.
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