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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice an

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“You will remain here until relief arrives. You have ample seal food which you can supplement with birds and fish according to your skill.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded

“You can convey my love to my people and say I tried my best.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded

“Dear Sir, In the event of my not surviving the boat journey to South Georgia you will do your best for the rescue of the party.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded, Food Shortage

“Please God, we will soon get ashore.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded, Food Shortage

“No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded, Food Shortage

“Wonderful, amazing splendid. Lat. 65°43' South–73 miles North drift. The most cheerful good fortune for a year for us: We cannot be much more than 170 miles from Paulet. Everyone greeted the news with cheers.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded

“One hardly likes to guess what our distance may be, but tonight is the fourth of this blow and there are no signs of it abating so we ought to have made a good distance to the North.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded

“This may be the turn in our fortune.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, Stranded

“I am growing anxious now with all this party.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration

“I am rather tired, I suppose it is the strain. ...I long for some rest, free from thought.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration

“The last day of the old year: May the new one bring us good fortune, a safe deliverance from this anxious time & all good things to those we love so far away.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration, New Year's Eve

“...now comes the actual work itself...the fight will be good.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration

“We had seen God in His splendors, we had heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: Sea Expedition, Exploration

“I pray God I can manage to get the whole party safe to civilization.”

— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com

Tagged: explorers, Failed Attempt, Sea Expedition

“Shackleton finding shelter for his men on the final trek. They instantly fall asleep. He sits for 5 minutes knowing that to sleep would be final—a death freeze. Wakes the men up, tells them they had 30 minutes rest, keeps it moving.”

— Alfred Lansing, amazon.com

Tagged: strategy, Leadership

“The sea is a different sort of enemy. Unlike the land, where courage and the simple will to endure can often see a man through, the struggle against the sea is an act of physical combat, and there is no escape. It is a battle against a tireless enemy in which man never actually wins; the most that h…”

— Alfred Lansing, amazon.com

Tagged: Life