"with characteristic foresight"

Shackleton's outstanding trait that leaps off the page of his Endurance journal, was, as Worsley puts it, his "characteristic foresight."

In the months leading up to abandoning ship, Shackleton considered, and prepared for, every eventuality.

From Worsley's Endurance...

"During our next conference, Shackleton, with characteristic foresight, began talking of the preparations that we should make against the time when the ship would be no more. He was bitterly disappointed, as sorely grieved as I was myself, and he let me get a glimpse of his mind when he sai, sadly, one day: 'It looks as though we shan't cross the Antarctic Continent after all.' He paused, and then squaring his shoulders, added cheerfully, 'Its a pity, but that cannot be helped. It is the men that we have to think about.' He had schooled himself always to consider his men before his own personal wishes."