Worsley's Endurance ... " Within the ship, to counteract the depression caused by darkness, we had a particularly brilliant scheme of...

From Worsley's Endurance ... "Shackleton had a genius - it was neither more or less than that - for keeping those about him in high...

Worsley, Endurance ... "... I remember looking at each one of the company present, and trying to image how he would feel had he heard...

Shackleton's outstanding trait that leaps off the page of his Endurance journal, was, as Worsley puts it, his "characteristic...

Worsley writing in his 1931 book, Endurance , about his July 13, 1915 conversation with Shackleton and Wild about the ship inevitably...

Frank Wild, who Shackleton regarded as a "second self," said, "'Yes, but we are not going to let the ice get us. The poor little Endurance...

From Sir Edmund's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey ... "Most of us have a hero or two that we openly or secretly admire, even if...

Edmund Hillary's Introduction to Shackleton's Boat Journey  by F. A. Worsley, June 28, 1976... "I would venture to guess that if a survey...

My great, great grandfather's Bible purchased in New York City in 1853. My interest in the Apostle Paul was triggered by a question...

Houses of Parliament before 1834 In the fall of 1774, the colonists sent a petition to George III explaining the contentious issues from...

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Hurley's Journal, May 19, 1915 A form of mid-winter madness has manifested itself, all hands being seized with the desire to have their...

Orde-Lees Journal, May 19, 1915 Aboard Endurance, May 19, 1915 We have had side splitting fun this evening. Everyone submitted to having...

A couple of blasts about U.S. Army life in 1918... "Well about camp life, when we got here Sunday we had dinner then we took our...

Running the Guns at Vicksburg, 1863 To commemorate Memorial Day, I've posted a photo-essay based on the letters my grandfather sent to...

Three weeks after British troops burned down the White House and the U.S. Capitol in 1814, the British Navy took aim at Fort McHenry,...