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About Ernest Shackleton

Polar Explorer. Leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917.

Dreams

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“…dreamed that the Daily Mail had the heading about us, ‘Compulsory Trans Antarctic Expedition.’” — Frank Worsley “I tried to drown multicoloured hounds of the Dachsund (German sausage) breed. My endeavours were not fraught with great success, for the Dachsunds … Continue reading →

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Monotony

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“Day passes day with very little or nothing to relieve the monotony. We take constitutionals round and round the floe but no one can go further as we are to all intents and purposes on an island. There is practically … Continue reading →

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Wax poetical.

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

Hurley: “Wax poetical. Magnificent night and morning with crystal-clear atmosphere. The moon almost on the horizon resembled the golden horn of fairy tales pending in a lustrous formament bespangled with brilliants. One’s imagination running riot might conjecture a blast sounded … Continue reading →

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Leap Year Day

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“For breakfast we had large tender seal steaks and a spoonful of fried dried onion each, tea and one Antarctic biscuit (Huntly and Palmers, 1 3/4 oz in weight). Luncheon: penguin liver, one dog-pemmican bannock each, one-quarter of a tin … Continue reading →

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“They will say Briton is a free Country”

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“I expect we will have to submit to have about £2 S10 abducted from our wages after being out of the world for 2 years & received no benefits, & then They will say Briton is a free Country. This … Continue reading →

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The only rational method

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“Sir Ernest wished to revise the weekly menu and would undertake to do it himself, in his usual way, putting down all the most popular dishes first. By the time he got to Wednesday, they were all appropriated and there … Continue reading →

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The hut on Paulet Island

Posted on February 22, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“We were still eighty miles from Paulet Island, which was now our objective. There was a hut there and some stores which had been taken down by the ship which went to the rescue of Nordenskjold’s Expedition in 1904, and … Continue reading →

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Argument

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“To detail the whole of what I said to Cheetham would merely bore the reader; suffice to say that the conversation turned upon whether we would reach England by May of this year, and I expressed my opinion that that … Continue reading →

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Eothen

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“The first night of your first campaign (though you be but a mere peaceful campaigner) is a glorious time in your life. It is so sweet to find one’s self free from the stale civilisation of Europe! Oh my dear … Continue reading →

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Wonderful, amazing, splendid

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Ernest Shackleton

“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. The wind still continues. We … Continue reading →

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