Margot MorrellNov 2, 2023"Never give up hope."When Shackleton finally got back to London in mid-1917, he was asked to speak at a boy's school. He couldn't make it but he wrote back...
Margot MorrellNov 1, 2023"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...
Margot MorrellNov 1, 2023Shackleton's Way - Leading through tough times18 years before Endurance was trapped in the Antarctic ice, the Belgian ship, Belgica, was in the same predicament. But the contrast -...
Margot MorrellOct 31, 2023Shackleton's Way of Communicating...In July 1915, Orde-Lees spent a few weeks in Shackleton's cabin recovering from a painful bout of sciatica. He used the opportunity of...