Books like Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer · Memoir

Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the May 1996 Everest expedition that killed eight climbers in a single afternoon.

Both dig into survival.

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand · Biography

Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.

Shares survival and resilience with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer · Biography

Into the Wild is Jon Krakauer's account of Christopher McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old who graduated from Emory University in 1990, gave his savings to charity, abandoned his car and possessions, and spent two years drifting through the American West before hitchhiking into the Alaskan wilderness in April 1992.

A kindred history read.

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed · Memoir

Wild is Cheryl Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone in 1995 at twenty-six, with no prior backpacking experience and a pack so heavy she could barely lift it.

Both dig into resilience.

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In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

Hampton Sides · History

In 1879, the USS Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into the Arctic under the command of Lieutenant George Washington De Long, on a mission to reach the North Pole.

Shares survival and leadership with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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Forged in Crisis

Nancy Koehn · History

Nancy Koehn, a historian at Harvard Business School, profiles five historical leaders who were forged — not simply demonstrated — by crisis: Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson.

Shares leadership and resilience with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission

Hampton Sides · History

Ghost Soldiers tells the story of the January 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines — a mission to rescue 513 American and Allied prisoners, survivors of the Bataan Death March, before the retreating Japanese army could execute them.

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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson · History

Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile covers Winston Churchill's first year as British Prime Minister — from May 1940, when he replaced Neville Chamberlain three days after Germany's invasion of the Low Countries, through May 1941.

Shares leadership and resilience with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

09

Results Without Authority

Tom Kendrick · Business

Results Without Authority addresses a challenge that most project managers and team leads face but few management books deal with directly: how to get work done when you have responsibility but no real authority over the people doing the work.

Shares leadership and teamwork with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Patrick Lencioni · Business

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is Patrick Lencioni's argument that most teams fail not because of strategy, talent, or resources, but because of five specific, predictable behavioral problems that compound on each other.

Shares leadership and teamwork with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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The Great Alone

Kristin Hannah · Contemporary fiction

In 1974, Ernt Allbright brings his wife Cora and teenage daughter Leni to the Alaskan wilderness.

Shares survival and resilience with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz · Business

The Hard Thing About Hard Things is Ben Horowitz's account of what it actually feels like to run a company through crisis.

Shares leadership and resilience with Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage.