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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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Football
“During afternoon indulged in a short game of football on the large floe to which the ship is moored.” — Frank Hurley
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Hussey and the Adelies
During the afternoon three adelie penguins approached the ship across the floe while Hussey was discoursing sweet music on the banjo. The solemn-looking little birds appeared to appreciate It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, but they fled in horror when … Continue reading
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It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
[It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, sung by Tom Yorke, 1914; as played on a 78]
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Shivering from truck to kelson
“Very slow progress, having re-entered fields of enormous floes. Many over a square mile in area, and with very little open water. All day we have been utilising the ship as a battering-ram. Backing and then full speed ahead at … Continue reading
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As far as the eye could reach
“The pack extended in all directions as far as the eye could reach.” — Ernest Shackleton
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Amphipods
“Wild shot a young Ross seal on the floe, and we manoeuvred the ship alongside. Hudson jumped down, bent a line on to the seal, and the pair of them were hauled up. The seal was 4 ft. 9 in. … Continue reading
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Diatoms
“Large numbers of bergs, mostly tabular in form, lay to the west of the islands, and we noticed that many of them were yellow with diatoms.” — Ernest Shackleton, South
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Entering the pack
Endurance entered the pack in earnest at latitude 59˚ 46″ S, longitude 18˚ 22″ W; 11 December 1914.
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The Gipsy Trail
“The white moth to the closing bine, The bee to the opened clover, And the gipsy blood to the gipsy blood Ever the wide world over. Ever the wide world over, lass, Ever the trail held true, Over the world … Continue reading
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