Category Archives: Other Voices

Types of Ice

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

Condensed from Sea-Ice Nomenclature, by J. M. Wordie. Slush or Sludge. Pancake Ice. (Ruffled, turned-up edges.) Young Ice. (Black ice. Ice flowers. Young ice.) Land floes. Floe. (Light floes, and heavy floes. Heavy floes covered with deep snow in the … Continue reading →

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It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

[It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, sung by Tom Yorke, 1914; as played on a 78]

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He perambulates alone aloft

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“Hurley was a marvel — with cheerful Australian profanity he perambulates alone aloft & everywhere, in the most dangerous & slippery places he can find, content & happy at all times but cursing so if he can a good or … Continue reading →

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When he did tell a man to jump…

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“Wild was always calm, cool or collected, in open lanes or in tight corners he was just the same; but when he did tell a man to jump, that man jumped pretty quick. He possessed that rare knack of being … Continue reading →

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Worsley specialized in ramming

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“Each watch had its characteristics. Worsley specialised in ramming, and I have a sneaking suspicion that he often went out of his way to find a nice piece of floe at which he could drive at full speed and cut … Continue reading →

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More Weight

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“…seems to me more glorious than if she had gone to meet the usual fate of vessels to slowly rot in some port, or to be used for something far off from her designation and purposes as an icy seas … Continue reading →

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First Sighting

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“We met the pack on our second day out. This was very disturbing for our leader, for although he had been warned by the whalers of bad ice conditions he had expected a little better than this.” — Perce Blackboro

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The Ship of Fools

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

(Excerpt) We are those fools who could not rest In the dull earth we left behind, But burned with passion for the West And drank a frenzy from its wind; The world where small men live at ease Fades from … Continue reading →

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Us Whalemen

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Ernest Shackleton

“It is because [we] want to get away from up there…us whalemen…not fit up there…and people up there not want queer folk around like…whalemen. And we no can write poetry or paint pictures or get away from silly world which … Continue reading →

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Now!

Posted on June 29, 2011 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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