Books Quote by Alfred Lansing

“A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very…

— Alfred Lansing

“Then he opened the Bible Queen Alexandra had given them and ripped out the flyleaf and the page containing the Twenty-third Psalm. He also…

— Alfred Lansing

“The date was October 27, 1915. The name of the ship was Endurance. The position was 69°5´ South, 51°30´ West—deep in the icy wasteland…

— Alfred Lansing

“Of all their enemies -- the cold, the ice, the sea -- he feared none more than demoralization.”

— Alfred Lansing

In that instant they felt an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. Though they had failed dismally even to come close to the expedition's…

— Alfred Lansing

“Even at home, with theatres and all sorts of amusements, changes of scene and people, four months idleness would be tedious: One can then…

— Alfred Lansing

I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

— Alfred Lansing

“Returning from a hunting trip, Orde-Lees, traveling on skis across the rotting surface of the ice, had just about reached camp when an evil,…

— Alfred Lansing

“They were for all practical purposes alone in the frozen Antarctic seas. It had been very nearly a year since they had last been…

— Alfred Lansing

it's been my experience that most writers don't talk about their craft--they just do it

— Alfred Lansing

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

— Alfred Lansing

“The whole undertaking was criticized in some circles as being too "audacious." And perhaps it was. But if it hadn't been audacious, it wouldn't…

— Alfred Lansing