American journalist and author — author of Endurance — who interviewed surviving crew members of the Shackleton expedition to write the definitive survival narrative.
Creates Endurance as a narrative — Lansing's method (tracking down surviving Shackleton crew members and using their original diaries) produced the most complete account of one of history's greatest survival stories.
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