“Greenstreet, Macklin, Kerr, and Marston were at the oars and they had about reached the limit of their endurance.”(Lansing168). These guys are busting their butts to get closer to land. None of them had been on land for 497 days and they were all exhausted. I doubt that Lansing did this on purpose, but I found a little irony in the way he included that they were at the limit of their endurance when the title of the book is Endurance. Just looking at the book and judging it by the cover along with the first couple chapters you might think that it was called Endurance because of the ships name. However the book could be called endurance regardless of the ships name. Each man had to have endurance to make it through the harsh nights on the sea. Today people talk about working on their endurance so they can run more or exercise more to stay in shape. Now if a personal trainer was a jerk about it and did not want a job he or she could just say plan a trip to the Artic with Shackleton if you want to work on endurance. This is where I came up with a good idea for a workout video someone needs to make. Call it the Shackleton plan or something like that.
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