Alfred Lansing

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Alfred Lansing was a journalist and writer. He died in 1975.

Lansing was a native of Chicago, Illinois. After serving more than five years in the Navy, he enrolled at Northwestern University, and majored in journalism. Until 1949 he edited a weekly newspaper. Thereafter he joined the United Press and in 1952 became a freelance writer.

He is mostly known for his book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, the account of the failed expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton's and his crew to the South Pole in 1914. The book is named after the ship used by Shackleton, the Endurance. The book was a bestseller when it was first published in 1959[1]. Subsequent reprints have made it re-appear several in the bestsellers list; last time in the late 90s.