August 29, 1916, Orde-Lees' Journal A fine sunrise, clear and cold, gave promise of a fine day hopes of which were later on fulfilled. In...

Me too. That got me thinking about how the guys on Elephant Island were coping with uncertainty while waiting for Shackleton to return...

Physicist Reginald James generously shared his reminiscences of Shackleton with biographer, Hugh Robert Mill. 22 Albion Road Fallowfield...

Rummaging through my files, I found this ... Harold Begbie, British author and journalist quoted Shackleton as saying, "Life to me means...

Shackleton described Frank Wild, his trusted second-in-command, as his "second self." He was quoting Cicero, "A friend is a second self."...

Orde-Lees Journal... Wild is our second in command and quite the most popular man (save our leader) amongst us. He has rare tact and the...

During an interview today, we talked about the contrast of the atmosphere on Endurance to another ship that was also trapped by ice off...

How are you doing, my darlings? Are we having fun yet? I don't know about you, but last week, I was deteriorating into frazzled and...

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

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

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....

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

“Not only the main problem but its details absorbed him. Food, how to get it, how to eke out our slender stock of preserved food to give...

Picture 28 haggard, exhausted men standing on an ice-floe. They are hundreds of miles from civilization. There is no hope of rescue. They...

In the 1950s, Dr. Macklin described how Shackleton handled the crisis when a summer storm left Endurance trapped in a floating sea of...