South
Ernest Shackleton, 1919
A first-hand account of a ship crushed in Antarctic ice and a crew that must improvise its way home, told in the plain, dry voice of the man responsible for them.
Ernest Shackleton
1874–1922
Endurance was launched in Norway as Polaris. Shackleton renamed her after his family motto, Fortitudine vincimus, 'By endurance we conquer'.
Feels like adventure, awe and nature.
The moment open water returns after months of white.
We made our way through the lanes till at noon we were suddenly spewed out of the pack into the open ocean. Dark blue and sapphire green ran the seas. Our sails were soon up, and with a fair wind we moved over the waves like three Viking ships on the quest of a lost Atlantis. With the sheet well out and the sun shining bright above, we enjoyed for a few hours a sense of the freedom and magic of the sea, compensating us for pain and trouble in the days that had passed. At last we were free from the ice, in water that our boats could navigate. Thoughts of home, stifled by the deadening weight of anxious days and nights, came to birth once more, and the difficulties that had still to be overcome dwindled in fancy almost to nothing. Books by Ernest Shackleton
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