Term Paper on "Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions"

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He had something bright to notice and to say in the midst of the long misery:

"As we clustered round the blubber stove, with the acrid smoke blowing on our faces, we were quite a cheerful company. Life was not so bad. We ate our evening meal while the snow drifted down from the surface of the glacier and our chilled bodies grew warm."

At other times, he accounted for and wrote about the details of their travails as only a man in control can:

"It was a mighty upheaval of the ocean, a thing quite apart from the big white-capped seas that had been our tireless enemies for many days. I shouted

"For God's sake, hold on! It's got us.' Then came a moment of suspense that seemed drawn out into hours. White surged the foam of the breaking sea around

us. We felt our boat lifted and flung forward like a cork in breaking surf. We were in a seething chaos of tortured water, but somehow the boat lived through it, half full of water, sagging to the dead weight and shuddering under the blow. We baled with the energy of men fighting for life, flinging the water over the sides with every receptacle that came to our hands, and after ten minutes of uncertainty we felt the boat renew her life beneath us."

His decisiveness was among his hallmarks:

"Boys, this snow-slope seems to end in a precipice, but perhaps, there is no precipice. If we don't go down, we shall have to make a detour of at least five miles before we reach level going. What shall it be?"

"Try the slope."

Arriving in a whaling station in South Georgia with Worsley and Crean, Shackleton described the journey, thus:

"We had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment and high hopes. We had 'suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole.' We had seen God in His splendours, heard the text that

Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man."

He remained at Stromness to prepare plans to rescue the rest of his crew in Elephant Island. On May 23, he left with Worsley and Crean on the British whale catcher, Southern Sky, for that rescue. It was his single obsession to come back for them. Shackleton later wrote about this in a letter to a friend:

"When we got to the whaling station, it was the thought of all those comrades that made us so mad with joy. We didn't so much feel safe as that they would be saved.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Lansing, A. (2002). Endurance -- shackleton's incredible voyage. 26th ed. Carroll and Graff Publishers

2. Shackleton, E.. (2002). South. 12th ed Carroll and Graf Publishers

3. Ward, P. (2005). Ernest shackleton. Cool Antarctica. http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antartica%20%fact%20fil/History/Ernest%20Shackleton_Nimrod_expedition.htm

Alfred Lansing (2002). "Endurance -- Shackleton's Incredible Voyage." 26th printing, Carroll & Graf Publishers

Paul Ward (2005). "South by Ernest Shackleton." Cool Antarctica. Web page 1

Paul Ward. Ernest Shackleton.

Ernest Shackleton. South..

Shackleton. South. Pp 36-38

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