This 'scrapbook' is a way for me to provide an annotated list of resources I have discovered while reading about Shackleton and his polar exploration. It is not, and will not be, a complete document. But in conversation with others I realise these notes may have some value. In the interest of transparency I will admit that I started on this journey after purchasing a Lego model of the Endurance, along with the life boat model of the James Caird.
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| LEGO model of the Ship Endurance |
Blog Posts (my own blog)
Shackleton's Proposal of the Third Expedition -1914. A copy of a proposal for the expedition with appeared in at least two newspapers.
Shackleton's Ship Endurance. An article in the Queenslander which documents the arrival of the Endurance in the Thames. It describes the boat and its design, and provided a plan of the vessel. Also includes a partial list of the expedition participants.
The Endurance Dogs. (pending)
Blog posts (not my own)
What books did Shackleton take with him on the Endurance
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35633374
Shackleton Online - a collection from the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University.
Books
South. Ernest Shackleton (1919). Available at Project Gutenberg. This is Shackleton's account of the Endurance Expedition, along with his derived accounts for the components he was not present for, namely the story of the Ross Sea party. It also includes a number of appendices on various topics related to the expedition. I enjoyed this read, there is an optimism in the hardship which is very appealing.
Book recommendations from the ErnestShackleton.net
http://www.ernestshackleton.net/recommendedreading
Rare books from the Era of Polar Exploration
https://www.peterharrington.co.uk/catalogsearch/result/?q=shackleton
Book recommendations from Viking Tours an Antarctic tour company
https://www.vikingcruises.com.au/expeditions/cruise-destinations/antarctica/antarctic-explorer/reading-list.html
Frank Hurley
I realised that many of the images of the Endurance I a already recognised from seeing Hurley's photography on other contexts. To place these images into the context of Shackleton's writing has transformed my appreciation of what Hurley achieved with his camera.
Podcasts
What would Shackleton Do? This is the question asked in the midst of the Covid19 Pandemic. It is a series of five episodes of approximately 20 minutes each which cover the theme words, Optimism, Patience, Idealism, Courage the four words chosen by Shackleton as essential qualities of polar explorers, and it adds a fifth which they argue is implied but not stated by Shackleton, Kindness.
Visual Media
Endurance. Disney+ has this great National Geographic documentary, which uses colourised versions of Frank Hurley's footage from the Endurance Expedition. Its runs a parallel narrative about an expedition in 2022 to discover the wreck of the Endurance, the juxtaposition of the two levels of technology shows starkly how much change 100 years has made.
Postage Stamps
Version history.
6 Jan 2025 - First hit of the publish button.
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