Category Archives: Other Voices

Now!

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

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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Lionel Greenstreet, first officer

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

With just 48 hours notice, Lionel Greenstreet signed on with Endurance as first officer. Greenstreet hailed from a sea-faring family; his father was a captain with the New Zealand Shipping Company. Greenstreet had gone to sea as a cadet at … Continue reading →

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The Lily of Belgium

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

The Lily of Belgium: The sufferings and renaissance of Belgium, a contemporary allegory, by Wladyslaw Starewicz, 1915: an animated insect short film about the invasion of Belgium by Germany and the start of WWI: Part I: Part II: “A keen … Continue reading →

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The Wearing o’ the Green

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

The Endurance sailed from London’s East India docks today. “In delicate allusion to the fact that there are… Irishmen in the Expedition, including the leader…the pipers struck up ‘The Wearing o’ the Green’.” — Manchester Guardian

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North Sea flight

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

Taking off in his Blériot XI-2 plane, from Cruden Bay, Scotland, [Tryggve] Gran landed 4 hours 10 minutes later at Kleppe, near Stavanger, Norway, after a flight of 465 kilometres (289 mi). “It is the longest oversea flight without sight … Continue reading →

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First cousins

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

Tsar Nicholas II and King George V Kaiser Wilhelm II “Wilhelm’s left arm was damaged during birth; throughout his life he could not dress or cut his food without help. He was jocular but cold and arrogant and prone to … Continue reading →

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Robert Clark, biologist

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

Robert Clark, biologist “Both [Clark and Wordie] were ‘dour Aberdonians.’” — Roland Huntford, Shackleton “He was never quite so excited as when he had found a new or novel specimen for his biological collections. […] Clark was known for his … Continue reading →

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Sir James Wordie, geologist

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

Sir James Wordie, known as “Jock,” geologist and head of the expedition’s scientific staff. “Wordie was recommended to Shackleton for the expedition by Raymond Priestley (later knighted) who had been the geologist on the Nimrod expedition. He was expedition geologist … Continue reading →

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Not adverse to voicing his opinion

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

“Mrs. Chippy” perched on Perce Blackborow “Henry McNish was one of the oldest members of the expedition, a Scot of whom Shackleton wrote was “the only man I’m not dead certain of”. This somewhat curmudgeonly figure was the ship’s carpenter … Continue reading →

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Harry “Chippy” McNeish

Posted on July 21, 2014 by Ernest Shackleton

“[McNeish was] neither sweet-tempered nor tolerant and his Scots voice could rasp like frayed wire cable. He had no use whatever for a gangling first-tripper who spoke, as he expressed it, “like a pimp at a whore’s tea-party”… I loved … Continue reading →

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