Courage

"A horrible sickening sensation"

Frank Wild Alexander Macklin, surgeon on Endurance, meticulously kept an expedition journal that went down with the ship. The day after...

Doing the Impossible

When doing the impossible - catching the Nimrod, surviving the boat journeys, crossing South Georgia, Shackleton had a rock solid faith...

"Old Cautious"

A "strange contrast"

"Courage and willpower"

"life on an ice floe has its pleasant hours"

Heart-wrenching journal entry from McNeish

"A craze for Bridge" and boat assignments