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Shackleton is a Twitter novel by artist Peggy Nelson— follow along at @EShackleton. This blog is the media companion to the novel.From @EShackleton:
- Incredible to see her again... after all this time... #Endurance twitter.com/BBCAmos/status… 1 year ago
- the climate scientist who introduced us to Shackleton. RIP Jim McCarthy, a great man and a dear friend. 🌎… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 3 years ago
- RT @otolythe: my talk about @EShackleton on @twitter at 3rd South Pole-sium, Oslo, May 2017 vimeo.com/219838961 #Shackleton #storytelli… 5 years ago
- TO everyone who has followed this adventure for the past 5 years, thank you!! I hope you've enjoyed it as much as I have. — @otolythe ^_^ 6 years ago
- Resources used to create this account: selected books, films, websites, & reenactments: eshackleton.com/resources 6 years ago
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Huberht Hudson, Navigator
Huberht Hudson, Navigating Officer “[Hudson] owed his nickname — Buddha — to a practical joke he had fallen for once while the ship was at South Georgia. The men had convinced him that there was to be a costume party … Continue reading
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Ramparts of Mt. Paget
The ramparts of Mt. Paget, South Georgia Island, by Frank Hurley [image] More on Mt. Paget
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When things are easy I hate it
“I have committed all sorts of crimes in thought if not always in action and dont [sic] worry much about it, yet I hate to see a child suffer or to be false in any way…I am hard also, and … Continue reading
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Nine men standing on beached sperm whale
Nine men standing on beached sperm whale at Leith Harbour, South Georgia, 1913 “Although the results of the Dundee Antarctic Expedition of 1892-93 inevitably led to the conclusion that whaling in the Antarctic seas was not then a viable economic … Continue reading
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Business Plan
“When I get back I will make a company for whaling here [S. Georgia], on a capital of £50,000 one can make for certain 50 to 100 thousand pounds a year net profit it is a gold mine only very … Continue reading
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“Ready, lads, ready!”
An action picture of whaling 1837; engraving by William Home Lizars, after a drawing by J Stewart “At one bound the captain sprang to the bow of the boat, and, brandishing the lance, cried: “Ready, lads, ready!” “The harpooner took … Continue reading
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Grytviken
Grytviken, South Georgia Island. The Endurance is visible in the middle of the harbor.
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Exhaled humor from every pore
“The life and soul of our party, [Hurley] exhaled humour at every pore, possessing a large fund of inoffensive wit and a weakness for practical joking from which no one of us, his seventeen companions, wholly succeeded in escaping.” – … Continue reading
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Frank Hurley
“A swaggering character with a shock of dark, curly hair, and an uneasy cast to his face, Hurley was a compulsive roamer. As a boy, he had run away from home. He came to photography by chance.” — Roland Huntford, … Continue reading
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