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Books by Alfred Lansing

Born in Chicago on July 21, 1921, Alfred Lansing served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and received a Purple Heart for being wounded during service. Afterward, he enrolled at North Park College and later at Northwestern University, where he majored in journalism.

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Drawing heavily on diaries kept during the expedition and discussions with its surviving members, “Endurance,” by Alfred Lansing, describes in harrowing detail the failure of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917) to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent.

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