Category Archives: Other Voices

Food shortage

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“The present shortage of food is due simply and solely from the Boss refusing to get seals when they were to be had and even refusing to let Orde-Lees go out and look for them… His sublime optimism all the … Continue reading →

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Amenomania

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“[The winds] tear and haul at our flimsy tent as though they would burst it to tatters. It rattles, flaps, and trembles incessantly… So thin is the material that the smoke from our pipes and cigarettes eddies, swirls and sways … Continue reading →

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What are you going to do with all the money?

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“[I was cooking] on the floe. It was a bitter day… I was crying my eyes out. I was absolutely done… the Boss turned up, asked me how I was getting on. “Oh, all right,” I said. He said “What … Continue reading →

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The “vitamin”

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“Shackleton, who was rather an amazing man in the way he had made himself au fait with all the latest developments… and who had [also] collected all the latest information as regards scurvy, was very enthusiastic [about] the idea of … Continue reading →

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Escape

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“I am absolutely obsessed with the idea of escaping… We have been over 4 months on the floe — a time of absolute and utter inutility to anyone. There is absolutely nothing to do but kill time as best one … Continue reading →

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Not slushy but elusive

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“The surface is awful! — not slushy, but elusive. You step out gingerly. All is well for a few paces, then your foot suddenly sinks a couple of feet until it comes to a hard layer. You wade along in … Continue reading →

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One last journey

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“The going was so bad that they could not pull my weight, and I had to get off and flounder along beside the sledges. The dogs too kept falling back, and as soon as one dog collapsed or let his … Continue reading →

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Sea Leopard

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“A man on foot in soft, deep snow and unarmed would not have a chance against such an animal as they almost bound along with a rearing, undulating motion at least five miles an hour. They attack without provocation, looking … Continue reading →

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Potash and Perlmutter

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

The cook sledge is under the charge of “Potash & Perlmutter.” “The “Colonel” really deserves a V.C. for the gallant way in which he has taken charge of & stuck to the culinary Dept. under the most adverse condition. He … Continue reading →

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Message in a bottle

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Ernest Shackleton

“The Endurance has been crushed and abandoned at 69° 5′ South, 51° 35′ West, and the members of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition are now at 67° 9′ South, 52° 25′ West, and proceeding to the west across the ice in … Continue reading →

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