Orde-Lees' Journal - October 26, 1915 Further heavy pressure took place again this evening lifting first the bows then the stern several...

Gas, 1940 “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of...

Orde-Lees' Journal, October 25, 1915 "...This breaking up of the floe is very undesirable just now with low temperature as it seems to...

Orde-Lees' Journal - October 24, 1915 In this journal entry, we see Shackleton, in a crisis, ahead of his team. #LeadingByExample "We had...

Orde-Lees Journal, October 23, 1915 Waiting, waiting, waiting, that is about all one can say each day if one were merely to write down...

Two-year-old Elvis Presley with his parents, Gladys and Vernon. Elvis Presley's mom had a gift that she passed on to her son. She was a...

Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, Yankee Manager, Babe Ruth. When Jacob Ruppert purchased the Yankees, he hired Wild Bill Donovan, one of the...

In an early letter, Paul, the once ferocious Pharisee, who had persecuted Christ’s followers, wrote, “But the fruit of the Spirit is...

The 1927 New York Yankees "The Colonel" Jacob Ruppert, Jr. described the baseball team he bought in 1914 as, "an orphan club, without a...

Getting the best from your team.

Beginning of the end for Endurance

“He was a tower of strength and endurance, and he never panicked in any emergency. And he was the most generous man I ever came across.”...

"Shackleton at this time showed one of his sparks of real greatness..."

This account, written in the 1950, discusses Endurance's stay in Buenos Aires in 1914. The passage highlights a particularly powerful...

…I think that though failure in the actual accomplishment must be recorded, there are chapters in this book of high adventure, strenuous...

Frank Wild, second-in-command on Endurance and Quest ... "I have served with Scott, Shackleton and Mawson, and have met Nansen,...

It's great to have friends who send links to Shackleton news in the Hollywood Reporter... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-...

Ed. Note: Reading over Orde-Lees' diary entries from October 1915, brought to mind the passage below from Shackleton's Way . It...

Orde-Lees Journal Thursday, 14 October, 1915 Temperature +31 to +15. A clear mild day. Awful slushy on deck. Today we had all meals up...

Profiles of the Endurance crew.