Endurance vs Longitude: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Biography & Memoir, History
Endurance
Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England, in August 1914. The ship became locked inside an island of ice,…
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Longitude
“Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.”
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth…
The verdict
- Readers rate Endurance highest: Endurance 4.5 · Longitude 4.3.
- Endurance has the widest readership — 178559 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Endurance | Longitude | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.5 (178559) | 3.8 (48) |
| Hardcover | 4.5 (371) | 5.0 (1) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (1) | 4.0 (1) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (689) | 4.5 (148) |
Reception
| Endurance | Longitude | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 178559 | 148 |
| Editions | 43 | 49 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 172899 | — |
| Reading it now | 8586 | — |
| Written reviews | 14907 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 3258 | 10634 |
| Pages | 287 | 188 |