Summer Reading
Looking for a good summer read? Consider joining us as we dive into this year’s summer reading assignment,
Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure, by F.A. Worsley. This marks the fourth year that Cushing has chosen a single book for the entire Cushing community – students, faculty, and staff – to read. The selection focuses on leadership, which is also our overarching theme for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Worsley relates the story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic in 1914-16 and its subsequent/incredible rescue: "after HMS Endurance became stuck in Antarctic ice packs and then sank into the Weddell Sea, its twenty-five crew members were forced to launch three lifeboats and sail, in miserable conditions, for barren Elephant Island. From there, Shackleton, Frank Worsley (captain of the Endurance), and four others set off in the largest of the lifeboats to seek help eight hundred miles away at the whaling stations on the island of South Georgia."
To view our reading guide associated with this book, please
click here.