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Author Archives: Ernest Shackleton
Stowaway
Perce Blackboro (age 18) with Mrs. Chippy, ship’s cat, on board the Endurance; photo by Frank Hurley, 1914
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Now!
Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, — so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection’s … Continue reading
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Penguins
Could a penguin just go crazy? from Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog, 2007
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Worsley’s Dream
“One night I had an absurd dream. I dreamed that Burlington Street was full of ice blocks and that I was navigating a ship along it. “Next morning I awoke and hurried along to Burlington Street. A sign on a … Continue reading
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Apocryphal, yet apt.
May 31, 2011
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Amundsen
Amundsen has reached the Pole. “The same endurance, the same skill and the same meed of endeavour must be granted to Amundsen, as the Norwegian people would grant to Scott if the positions [were] reversed.” (Shackleton, writing in the Daily … Continue reading
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Locksley Hall
COMRADES, leave me here a little, while as yet ’tis early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle horn. ’Tis the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call, Dreary gleams … Continue reading
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TEDx
[Shackleton speaking in 1910 about the results of his Nimrod Polar Expedition, 1907-09. source: archive.org; public domain.]
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We’re held fast in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea, a few hundred miles north of our landing destination, Vahsel Bay.
May 19, 2011
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THE NEW EXPEDITION. | TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir, — It has been an open secret for some time past that I have been desirous of leading another expedition to the South Polar regions. — I am glad … Continue reading
May 10, 2011
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