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Ernest Shackleton led two Antarctic expeditions, and died shortly after the beginning of a third. His first expedition was not a total success (they did not reach the South Pole), and the second was, in some senses, a total failure (they never reache...
The Shackleton story is fascinating, not only for the awesome testament to dogged determination to succeed in the face of seemingly daunting odds that it is.
This is a bone chilling visual and literary step by aching step trudge through the most i...
Some six years ago it fell to my lot to edit and print the first Antarctic publication; it is my fortune now to edit another. There are essential differences between the two efforts, for The South Polar Times was typewritten and only one c...
The Shackleton story is fascinating, not only for the awesome testament to dogged determination to succeed in the face of seemingly daunting odds that it is.
This is a bone chilling visual and literary step by aching step trudge through the most ...