First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton

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48 points·curmudgeon22··6 comments

Ooh, anything Shackleton is a read for me.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage is a top 5 all time book for me.

│ When he saw the three men he stepped back and a look of disbelief came over his face. For a long moment he stood shocked and silent before he spoke.

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│ "Who the hell are you?" he said at last.

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│ The man in the center stepped forward.

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│ "My name is Shackleton," he replied in a quiet voice.

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│ Again there was silence. Some said that Sørlle turned away and wept.

Same. I'll read and listen and watch anything related to Shackleton.

One of his last discovered ships being entangled in fishing nets has an element of poetry to me. The few photos in the article are cute, too, in showing the ship being in an active marine environment.

'Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage' is a fantastic read.

I also highly recommend the book written by the team that found the wreck of the Endurance, and Fienne's biography of Shackleton.

You may well know this already, but the 2002 "Shackleton" miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh is a pretty faithful dramatisation of Alfred Lansing's book. Well worth a watch if you can get hold of it.

Kenneth Branagh + Shackleton is an instant watch for me, what a great combination.

I have a photo on my wall taken by Frank Hurley, the photographer on the Endurance, of some of the first sea ice they encountered on the last journey.

Fienne's biography of Shackleton is a great read, it captures the complexity of the man that spent most of his life near bankruptcy because he refused, out of romance or ethics or similar, to monetize his explorations unlike his contemporaries.

Oh, and his brother may have stolen the Irish Crown Jewels.

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