Endurance

"One book I do recommend is Endurance, the story of Ernest Shackleton's journey to the South Pole. Half the book is just him and his crew frozen in their boat. It's remarkable that it's a true story."

""Endurance," Alfred Lansing's brisk, spare telling of Ernest Shackleton's polar ordeal. After two years lost off Antarctica... This is where I lost it."

"Alfred Lansing's "Endurance" and Walter Lord's "A Night to Remember." Those two books set the standard when it comes to dramatic, impeccably researched storytelling."