So when I’m not remodeling, playing with the kids, or on a date with my wife (rare these days!) I like to read. A fave is South and (among other things more notable) it’s about a ship called The Endurance and its 1914 voyage to Antarctica. It was so named for its captain, Ernest Shackleton. The Anglo-Irishman’s family motto was Fortitudine Vincimus, Latin for “By Endurance We Conquer.”
The punchline–and this doesn’t give away the book–is that Endurance gets caught in the ice, crushed and sunk. It takes a while so everybody climbs off. And that’s where the story of actual endurance begins.
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