Shackleton had lots of challenges to deal with among his team. Photographer Frank Hurley was a prima donna. Hurley was loud and...

Harry McNeish Journal, October 28, 1915 "we have everything about rady for the march which is 270 miles to the nearest known land over...

In the frantic days of trying to save the ship and then abandoning Endurance, Frank Hurley initially dashed off relatively brief entries...

Orde-Lees Journal, 28 October 1915 We had been asleep only one & a half hours when at 2:30 a.m. the floe split in half right through the...

Forty years after Endurance sank, physicist Reginald James wrote to Shackleton's biographer... “There was nothing in the nature of a set...

Frank Hurley's Journal, October 24, 1915 The floes which have been in motion during the afternoon, set in with great energy about 6 p.m.,...

The Endurance crew was listening to a Sunday evening gramaphone concert when... Orde-Lees Journal, October 24, 1915 "...a terrific crash...

In 1995, on my way to Antarctica for the first time, I stopped by the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, NZ to take a look at...

In 1915, Shackleton and the crew are still living on Endurance and waiting for the ice to loosen up. Still thinking about Henry Knox,...

Shackleton once recalled what a London theatrical manager told him about the challenge of forming a repertory company: “Character and...