A black and white film negative of Shackleton’s expedition to the Antarctic winter flashlight scene in the Weddell Sea, showing Endurance stuck fast. Credit: Library of Congress There are few stories ...
Seldom has failing done as much for a man’s reputation as it did for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s. Leading an expedition that lasted from 1907 to 1909, the Anglo-Irishman tried to discover the South Pole ...
One of the best adventure books ever written begins with a failure. “The order to abandon ship was given at 5 p.m.” So opens Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance” (1959), the definitive account of Ernest ...
Growing up in the Falkland Islands, maritime archaeologist Mensun Bound was enamored with tales of adventure and stories of the sea. He was particularly taken with the saga of Ernest Shackleton, the ...
The explorer’s journey to Antarctica was likely doomed before it began. By Sara Novak Ernest Shackleton was sailing for Antarctica on the ship, called the Quest, when he died in 1922. Researchers ...
THE SHIP BENEATH THE ICE: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance. By Mensun Bound. Mariner Books. 416 pages. $35. That old proverb your mother taught you — “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try ...
Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty, ice-breaking research vessel S. A. Agulhas II (pictured below). It was part of Endurance22, a successful 2022 ...
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