Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Lansing's defining and most widely recognized work; it is a self-contained narrative of Shackleton's Antarctic expedition.
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Alfred Mark Lansing (1921–1975) was an American journalist and nonfiction writer. He is best known for Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (1959), his account of Shackleton's 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, reconstructed from crew interviews, journals, and diaries. The book was a 1960 National Book Award nonfiction finalist. Lansing also co-authored Drugs (1967), a Life Science Library volume, with Walter Modell and the editors of Life. Sources: https://alfredlansing.com/ ; https://www.nationalbook.org/people/alfred-lansing/ ; https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA41328143
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Drugs
A self-contained popular-science book and Lansing's only other separately published book identified in the principal bibliography.
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Life Science Library
Time-Life's hardbound popular-science series published from 1963 to 1967. Drugs is volume 24 of the series and was written by Walter Modell, Alfred Lansing, and the editors of Life. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Science_Library
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Book 24 · nonfiction · 1967
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