Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility, One has a sense of dependence on a higher Power.
NOTE: An unidentified person who knew Shackleton early in his career characterized the Boss as a "Viking with a mother's heart." In this anecdote from Dr. Macklin's journal, we get a glimpse of that t
Orde-Lees' Journal, November 24, 1915 Day by day goes by much the same as one another. We work; we talk; we laugh; we eat. Ah, we eat; how we eat! No longer on short rations we are a trifle more exa