Shackleton's Boat Journey
On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from
London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories of all time. Les mer
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On August 1, 1914, on the eve of World War I, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his hand-picked crew embarked in HMS Endurance from
London's West India Dock, for an expedition to the Antarctic. It was to turn into one of the most breathtaking survival stories
of all time. Even as they coasted down the channel, Shackleton wired back to London to offer his ship to the war effort. The
reply came from the First Lord of the Admiralty, one Winston Churchill: "Proceed." And proceed they did. When the Endurance
was trapped and finally crushed to splinters by pack ice in late 1915, they drifted on an ice floe for five months, before
getting to open sea and launching three tiny boats as far as the inhospitable, storm-lashed Elephant Island. They drank seal
oil and ate baby albatross (delicious, apparently). From there Shackelton himself and seven others - the author among them
- went on, in a 22-foot open boat, for an unbelievable 800 miles, through the Antarctic seas in winter, to South Georgia and
rescue. It is an extraordinary story of courage and even good-humour among men who must have felt certain, secretly, that
they were going to die.
Worsley's account, first published in 1940, captures that bulldog spirit exactly: uncomplaining, tough, competent, modest and deeply loyal. It's gripping, and strangely moving.
Worsley's account, first published in 1940, captures that bulldog spirit exactly: uncomplaining, tough, competent, modest and deeply loyal. It's gripping, and strangely moving.