Reginald James, physicist, writing in the 1950s... "He probably never made any deliberately planned steps to this end. His methods were...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 22, 1915 "... The loss of the ship last night cast a slight wave of depression over the camp. No one said...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 21, 1915 "This evening as we were mostly taking it easy & reading we heard Sir Ernest call out, "She's...

Frank Hurley on Shackleton... “I always found him rising to his best and inspiring confidence when things were at their blackest.”

When the royal governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, was asked why he did not pay off or bribe Sam Adams, he replied, "Such is...

Meterorologist Leonard Hussey on Shackleton: “No one could know Shackleton and work under him without feeling that his great strength lay...

Able Seaman William Bakewell: “Very friendly and easy to talk to. As he acted as librarian he would ask me many questions & my opinion...

Over the next few years, America will be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. There were three people who played...

Editor's Note: This is one of the Bible passages that Shackleton took with him when they abandoned Endurance . The Lord is my shepherd. I...

Editor's Note: Orde-Lees began his diary as an extended letter to his wife. This is one of those diary entries where that's particularly...

Frank Worsley's Journal - November 7, 1915 Everyone is happy and contented and hopeful, if not confident, of the future.  Speaking for...

Frank Hurley's Journal - November 14, 1915 During the afternoon, Wild and I went for a walk to the wreck. We found the intervening ice...

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 14, 1915 Temperature +25 to 33. "Bother the thaw; one lives in a state of perpetually wet feet but, strange...

Frank Hurley's Journal - November 13, 1915 At noon to-day the temperature rose to +33, with the result that the surface of the floe has...

Spotted on Xwitter a few days ago... Elon Musk: "The biggest mistake I made is to put too much of a weighting on somebody's talent and...

"Safe tell Mother." FBM meant to send this cablegram to his Sweetheart, Alice "Allie" Price, but in his haste, he put down his parents's...

On November 11, 1918, my grandfather, Frank B. Morrell, wrote the following letter from Verdun to his "sweetheart," my grandmother in...

When Shackleton abandoned Endurance , he took the Bible Queen Alexandra had given the expedition and, with a penknife, he carefully...

Image: Hurley and Shackleton at Ocean Camp Editor's Note: In this journal entry from Frank Hurley's journal, we catch a glimpse of what...