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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Alfred Lansing

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

— 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…

— Alfred Lansing

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

— Alfred Lansing

“He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Alfred Lansing

“The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a…

— Alfred Lansing

“Whatever his mood—whether it was gay and breezy, or dark with rage—he had one pervading characteristic: he was purposeful.”

— Alfred Lansing

“The ship reacted to each fresh wave of pressure in a different way. Sometimes she simply quivered briefly as a human being…

— Alfred Lansing

“There were the sounds of the pack in movement—the basic noises, the grunting and whining of the floes, along with an occasional…

— Alfred Lansing

“Nor did the Antarctic represent to Shackleton merely the grubby means to a financial end. In a very real sense he needed…

— Alfred Lansing

“They thought of home, naturally, but there was no burning desire to be in civilization for its own sake. Worsley recorded: "Waking…

— Alfred Lansing