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Shackleton's Way
Margot Morrell
Nov 10, 2023
"Our peculiar circumstances..."
Orde-Lees' Journal - November, 8 1915 Temperature +12. The blizzard continued through the morning but cleared towards noon, & it was a...
Margot Morrell
Nov 9, 2023
"We are in comparative comfort..."
NOTE: Thanks to Shackleton's leadership, ten days after abandoning Endurance, the crew has made a remarkable adjustment to living on an...
Margot Morrell
Nov 5, 2023
"we had a good thick hoosh"
Orde-Lees' Journal - 5 November 1915 Very cold during the night. I was on watch from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. and caught an Adelie penguin. This...
Margot Morrell
Nov 5, 2023
"Calm, fine, sunshiny day."
Hurley's Journal - November 5, 1915 Latitude - 69, 1.10 S. Longitude - 51, 57 W. Temperature +3. Calm, fine, sunshiny day. A few more...
Margot Morrell
Nov 4, 2023
"Does not look promising..."
Macklin's Journal - November 3, 1915 Worsley got a position - 69.3 S - 53.57 W., so that we have gone E. a little, but about 5 miles N....
Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 2023
What is Shackleton thinking?
Wild and Shackleton at the wreck The Boss writes in South... Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of...
Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 2023
"105 cases of provisions" salvaged
Hurley's Journal November 3, 1915 Latitude - 69, 35 S. Longitude - 51, 57 W. Construct an improved blubber stove, and place timbers under...
Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 2023
“Sarcophagi” on the ice
Worsley's Journal November 2 Tuesday 69° 7' 45" S 52° 5' W .7th night . It is now 8:20 p.m. and I have just finished all my days work...
Margot Morrell
Nov 3, 2023
"Chaos in practically every direction"
Worsley's Journal November 1 Monday 69° 9' S 52° 0' W Sir E., Wild, Hurley & I reconnoitre to the N.W. as soon as it clears and find...
Margot Morrell
Nov 2, 2023
Ocean Camp
+18 F was ideal weather from the Endurance crew's perspective. Cold enough that nothing was melting. This journal entry by Orde-Lees...
Margot Morrell
Nov 1, 2023
"A horrible sickening sensation"
Frank Wild Alexander Macklin, surgeon on Endurance, meticulously kept an expedition journal that went down with the ship. The day after...
Margot Morrell
Nov 1, 2023
Shackleton's Way - Leading through tough times
18 years before Endurance was trapped in the Antarctic ice, the Belgian ship, Belgica, was in the same predicament. But the contrast -...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023
"A leadership book that reads like an adventure story."
Dump Camp always makes me think of the wonderful Dava Sobel, author of Longitude and Galileo's Daughter... "I recall the moment as...
Margot Morrell
Oct 30, 2023
"The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon..."
Dump Camp Worsley's Journal. October 27, 1915 "The ship was not abandoned one hour too soon, for shortly after we had camped on the floe,...
Margot Morrell
Oct 29, 2023
"He looked to the future."
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Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2023
"rady for the march"
Harry McNeish Journal, October 28, 1915 "we have everything about rady for the march which is 270 miles to the nearest known land over...
Margot Morrell
Oct 28, 2023
Shackleton's Way of Leading through Disaster
Forty years after Endurance sank, physicist Reginald James wrote to Shackleton's biographer... “There was nothing in the nature of a set...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Shackleton: "at 5 p.m. I ordered all hands on to the ice"
South... "Again the pressure began, and at 5 p.m. I ordered all hands on to the ice. The twisting, grinding floes were working their will...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Endurance sends "a final signal of farewell"
Frank Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 "Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its...
Margot Morrell
Oct 27, 2023
Shackleton's leadership in disaster
Shackleton's Endurance Expedition - The crew at Dump Camp after Endurance is crushed by the ice.
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Leading By Example
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Communicating Effectively
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Keeping Up Morale
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Maintaining a Positive Attitude
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