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NikkiPotnick69 t1_ixssahd wrote

Book with a story on perseverance in the face of inevitable defeat?

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Petri-Dish t1_ixt62ok wrote

Unbroken is incredible. My other suggestion would be endurance. It's about a ship that gets trapped in Antarctica in the early 1900s with no hope to get rescued from their current situation.

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Perfect_Drawing5776 t1_ixuar1b wrote

Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King. Unbroken and Endurance are fantastic recs too. There are several versions of Endurance. I read Caroline Alexander’s. Alfred Landing’s also gets good reviews. You could go straight to the horse’s mouth and read South by Ernest Shackleton, he’s not a bad writer. Just be sure to get an edition of whichever you pick with Frank Hurley’s photographs.

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pulphope t1_ixx3p7s wrote

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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