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In late August 1916, the group on Elephant Island had little hope of rescue - Shackleton had been gone for over four months - and their...

In this journal entry, Orde-Lees notes that Shackleton maintains a positive attitude in dire circumstances and his attitude affects, and...

Monday, 4 January, 1915 The very salt beef reappeared as hash at tea tonight, but as we are now getting South a bit again, no one...

In this journal entry, we catch a glimpse of the extraordinary job Shackleton has done of keeping up the morale of his team and...

"A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon

In the Introduction of Shackleton's Way (bottom of pg. 3 paperback), we mention the week the crew spent in the lifeboats - a horrific...

"In spite of his own great disappointment and we all know that is disastrous enough, he never appears to be anything but the acme of good...

“He knows what the universe expects of man – courage, endurance, faith – faith in the goodness of existence.” Shackleton's comment on his...

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."...

Many years after Shackleton died, Frank Wild summed up his thoughts on the "Boss." "I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and...

...Shackleton failed only at the improbable; he succeeded at the unimaginable. "I love the fight and when things [are] easy, I hate it,"...

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...

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...