Have you seen the film where 'Shackleton dances' to entertain the crew. That's not what happened. Shackleton, Worsley, and "motor-expert" Orde-Lees took the ...

It's a tale so amazing you'll wonder why the Endurance saga hasn't become a part of every school-age child's reading. Since the publication of Shackleton's W...

If you'd like to learn more about the lives of Shackleton's crew members, head on over to Scott Polar Research Institute - https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/...

I've just figured out how to read reviews of the German edition of Shackleton's Way. A reviewer (see review below) makes an interesting point that "leaders a...

Shackleton celebrated accomplishments, milestones and holidays. In his account of the crossing of South Georgia, he wrote that he, Worsley and Crean would pa...

In the 1950s, Shackleton's tentmate on the ice, Reginald James, shared his memories of the Boss' leadership strategies... His methods were much more subtle &...

There was an Irish strain in him and he was full of imagination. He could see the whole thing accomplished, and he never admitted defeat. And he had a quick ...

Perhaps the most remarkable thing that may at once be said of him is that, unlike most people, there is no underside to his character. One could not be on mo...

There was nothing in the nature of a set speech. He spoke to us in a group, telling us that he intended to march the party across the land to the west; that ...

“In the long winter months, when the scientists toiled in darkness and cold at their routine tasks outside, the help and company of our leader might always b...

“No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay in the honesty of his selflessness. Men trusted him. He loved to...

“I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.” Frank Hurley, photographer, Endurance

Shackleton was no pushover as Dr. Macklin recounts in his 1956 interview with biographer James Fisher. In this section of the interview, Fisher and Macklin d...

Shackleton was knighted and feted all over the world for the extraordinary accomplishments of his 1907 - 1909 Nimrod expeditions. He had ...charted the Magne...

“… and until recently, he had been little remembered since his death.” For Shackleton, the Endurance expedition was a disaster. Yet, it's interesting to refl...

As we struggle through this current crisis, it's easy to default into thinking about the inconveniences and annoyances we're dealing with today. But focusin...