Books with title Endurance

Discover what it's like to spend a year in space in this awe-inspiring memoir from a real-life NASA astronaut who did just that! Prepare to blast off with astronaut Scott Kelly as he takes listeners on a journey through his year aboard the International Space Station and his life prior to becoming a true American hero. Discover the extreme challenges of long-term spaceflight, the pressures of living in close quarters with people from many countries, the extremely dangerous risk of colliding with space junk, and the unnerving feeling of not being able to help if tragedy strikes at home. Find out the story of Kelly's childhood, his struggles in school, and ultimately the inspiration that sparked his incredible career, and the training to become a test-pilot and then astronaut. This personal and fascinating story, newly adapted for young listeners from The New York Times best seller, will encourage aspiring astronauts and young listeners everywhere to believe in the impossible and reach for the stars "An engaging and high-flying read for nonfiction and space lovers alike." (School Library Journal) "Those who are intrigued by space travel will find this a fascinating book." (Booklist) "Recommend this to readers who are interested in current events and anyone who wants an in-depth look at a STEM-related career." (VOYA)

The Amazon All-star Bestselling Author Willow Rose draws you into a place that you never want to leave! Death is only the beginning!Meghan’s training at the Academy is coming to an end. Everything is going great as she comes closer to graduation. She is engaged to be married and the wedding is near when she hears some disturbing news that makes her rethink her future.In class, the students are learning to catch dreams and fly with the speed of light. Meghan soon discovers her special talents and that she is much stronger than she thought. But unfortunately, that doesn’t help her as she faces the truth about her own death, which will be revealed to her at the end of the year.Scroll up and get your copy today!

The legendary tale of Ernest Shackleton's grueling Antarctic expedition, recounted in riveting first-person detail by the captain of HMS Endurance. You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endurance, stuck impassably in Antarctic ice packs. "What the ice gets," replied Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition's unflappable leader, "the ice keeps." It did not, however, get the ship's twenty-five crew members, all of whom survived an eight-hundred-mile voyage across sea, land, and ice to South Georgia, the nearest inhabited island. First published in 1931, Endurance tells the full story of that doomed 1914-16 expedition and incredible rescue, as well as relating Worsley's further adventures fighting U-boats in the Great War, sailing the equally treacherous waters of the Arctic, and making one final (and successful) assault on the South Pole with Shackleton. It is a tale of unrelenting high adventure and a tribute to one of the most inspiring and courageous leaders of men in the history of exploration. 20 illustrations

'One of the most remarkable tales of human courage and determination. The story is gripping and the book is a classic of its kind' Sir Ranulph Fiennes Endurance is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. For five months Shackleton and his men, drifting on ice packs, were castaways on one of the most savage regions of the world. This utterly gripping book, based on first-hand accounts of crew members and interviews with survivors, describes how the men survived, how they lived together in camps on the ice for 17 months until they reached land, how they were attacked by sea leopards, the diseases which they developed, and the indefatigability of the men and their lasting civility towards one another in the most adverse conditions conceivable.

•‘A breath-taking story of courage under the most appalling conditions’ SIR EDMUND HILLARY.•Considered a superior first hand account of the last voyage of HMS Endurance and the 1914-17 expedition to the Antarctic than Shackletons’ own memoir ‘SOUTH’.•One of the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time (number 35).•‘One of the greatest survival stories ever told’ LIBRARY JOURNAL.The inspiring first hand account of Ernest Shackleton’s doomed Antarctic adventure by Frank Worsley, Captain of HMS Endurance – the expedition ship crushed to pieces after becoming icebound.Frank Worsley, or ‘Skipper’ to his best friend Ernest Shackleton, first published his memoir of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1931. It is now regarded as an adventure survival classic and to have surpassed even Shackleton’s own account, 'South'. The expedition of 1914–7 is considered to be the last major expedition of the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Conceived by Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. After Amundsen's South Pole expedition in 1911, this crossing remained, in Shackleton's words, the ‘one great main object of Antarctic journeyings’. It failed after the expedition ship became trapped in pack-ice in the Weddell Sea and sunk, shipwrecking and stranding its 28-man complement on the ice, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement. It is however, the story of how Frank Worsley, Shackleton and four others sailed a small lifeboat over 850 miles to secure the rescue of their comrades back on the ice that made the expedition a true epic of Polar exploration and endurance. Frank Worsley’s part in this voyage was pivotal, it was his feat of navigation and seamanship that made the extraordinary boat journey possible.ABOUT THE AUTHORFrank Arthur Worsley was born in 1872 in New Zealand. A gifted seaman and navigator he served in the Royal Naval Reserve and Merchant Navy before joining in 1914, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition as captain of HMS Endurance. In the First World War, he captured the Q-ship PC61 and a German U-boat. From 1921-2 he took part in Shackleton’s last expedition to the Antarctic as captain of the Quest. He wrote several books charting his seafaring and Polar achievements including 'Shackleton’s Boat Journey', 'Under Sail in the Frozen North: The Log of the 1926 British Arctic Expedition' and 'First Voyage in a Square-Rigged Ship'. He died in 1943 aged 70.PRAISE FOR ENDURANCE‘Frank Worsley was Shackleton’s captain. Fortunately he was a genius’ THE NEW YORK TIMES‘His account is brisker than the thorough Shackleton’s, but keeps the excitement intact’ NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC‘One of the most heroic rescues in history’ THE DAILY MIRROR‘A breath-taking story of courage under the most appalling conditions’ SIR EDMUND HILLARY‘One of the greatest survival stories ever told’ LIBRARY JOURNAL

The Saddle Club girls are participating in a new kind of horseback activity—endurance riding. They'll have to condition their horses and themselves for the grueling contest if they plan to make it across the finish line. But an annoying rider named Kristie keeps getting in the way. Carole, Stevie, and Lisa are pretty sure they can finish the competition. The question is: Can they endure Kristie?

From the Nasa astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station – what it’s like out there and what it’s like now, back here. Enter Scott Kelly's fascinating world and dare to think of your own a little differently. The veteran of four space flights and the American record holder for most consecutive days spent in space, Scott Kelly has experienced things very few of us ever have and very few of us ever will. Kelly's humanity, compassion, humour, and passion shine as he describes navigating the extreme challenge of long-term spaceflight, both existential and banal. He touches on what’s happened to his body, the sadness of being isolated from everyone he loves; the pressures of constant close cohabitation; the catastrophic risks of colliding with space junk, and the still more haunting threat of being absent should tragedy strike at home. From a natural storyteller Endurance is one of the finest examples the triumph of the human imagination, the strength of the human will, and the boundless wonder of the galaxy.