Worsley's Journal, November 23, 1915 The blasting of our Leader’s hopes and plans – at all events for this year – must be bitterly hard...

Dr. Macklin's Journal - November 10, 1915 Has turned very cold tonight. This afternoon Worsley and others had a clean out of the tent - a...

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On Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, a young army recruit wrote to his sweetheart back in Brooklyn... "November 11, 1918 11:30 A.M....

Wild and Shackleton at the wreck The Boss writes in South... Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of...

+18 F was ideal weather from the Endurance crew's perspective. Cold enough that nothing was melting. This journal entry by Orde-Lees...

When Shackleton finally got back to London in mid-1917, he was asked to speak at a boy's school. He couldn't make it but he wrote back...

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

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...

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...

Frank Hurley's Journal - October 27, 1915 "Chips expects to complete the coffer dam tonight, and great hopes are entertained for its...

South. Shackleton's account of the Endurance Expedition... “After long months of ceaseless anxiety and strain, after times when hope beat...

“I do not think there is any doubt that we all owe our lives to his leadership and his power of making a loyal and coherent party out of...

Frank Hurley's Journal, October 26, 1915 "Extremely heavy pressure set in again opening planking 4 & 5 inches on the starboard side. ...

“He was a tower of strength and endurance, and he never panicked in any emergency. And he was the most generous man I ever came across.”...

Shackleton, South, October 25, 1915 "I scarcely dared hope now that the Endurance would live, and throughout that anxious day I reviewed...

McNeish's Journal, October 24, 1915 "I dont know what Lat we are in at present but things looks a bit serious now I have built a coffer...

Frank Worsley on Shackleton's Leadership: “Any and every duty is undertaken cheerfully and willingly and no complaint or whining is ever...