Ed. note: Worsley captured Shackleton's leadership style in this one sentence. Shackleton led by example; he communicated effectively; he...

Frank Hurley's Journal - December 3, 1915 Went to the ship's grave with teams, Wild, McIlroy and Marston salving numerous odds and ends...

Ed, note: In this journal entry, Lees explains their situation and their possible goals. It's also interesting to compare the voices of...

Alexander Macklin's Journal - December 3, 1915 Ed. note: The journal Dr. Macklin kept aboard Endurance went down with the ship to his...

Orde-Lees' journal, December 2, 1915, "there are a good many of us only too anxious to come down again,"

"...the help and company of our leader might always be relied upon..."

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...