Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

[Pondfisher]

Just finished Alfred Lansings book on Shackleton. Great read! I also found a short doc on the failed expedition. Awesome to see actual photos and video from that era.

They were all pipe smokers and when their tobacco ran out..their moral did as well.

This story makes me feel like a lazy sob!!!

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I recently read Endurance by Lansing just after the ship was found in May of this year. Good read, but not necessarily as detailed as I would have preferred.

Being from the Great Lakes state, I enjoy reading about shipwrecks and seeing photos of the remains (but think the wrecks themselves are tragic). Modern technology really allows for some amazing underwater photos.

 

[alaskanpiper]

If you haven’t read “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard I strongly recommend that as well. A first hand account of Robert Scott’s ill-fated South Pole Expedition. A remarkable story of unfathomable endurance.

You may also enjoy the novel “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven” by Nathaniel Ian Miller. Know to us here, as @odobenus

Great little page turner set on Svalbard with pipes galore and a pup named after a certain pipe making legend

 

[stearmandriver]

It's one of the great survival stories of all time. Shackleton was the epitome of leadership.

Incredible that she's still down there...

 

[GatorElGato]

Shackleton's book about his expeditions are very well written. I would also recommend the mini series of his Endurance expedition staring Kenneth Branagh.

 

[alaskanpiper]

One of the most prized pieces of my collection:

 

[Pondfisher]

If you haven’t read “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard I strongly recommend that as well. A first hand account of Robert Scott’s ill-fated South Pole Expedition. A remarkable story of unfathomable endurance.

You may also enjoy the novel “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven” by Nathaniel Ian Miller. Know to us here, as @odobenus

Great little page turner set on Svalbard with pipes galore and a pup named after a certain pipe making legend

Thanks for the recommendations! I will check them out!

 

[alaskanpiper]

Also recommend this weighty tome:

 

[scloyd]

You may also enjoy the novel “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven” by Nathaniel Ian Miller. Know to us here, as @odobenus

I agree...a very good book.

 

[Skink]

Back in March I watched "Shackleton's Endurance: The Lost Ship Found" on the History Channel. They told the story of the expedition, showed the photographs, but pretty much concentrated on how they located the ship. I enjoyed watching it. Still can't believe that the entire crew survived the 18 months on the ice.

 

[scloyd]

The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Wow! What a coincidence, I was just looking at this book in the Explorer's Club website store where I'll probably order it. I avoid purchasing books from Amazon.

 

[Pondfisher]

after reading the book..i am curious what seal and penguin taste like......

 

[alaskanpiper]

after reading the book..i am curious what seal and penguin taste like......

Haha yeah, having had seal I can tell you that “hoosh” does not sound particularly appetizing

 

[alaskanpiper]

Wow! What a coincidence, I was just looking at this book in the Explorer's Club website store where I'll probably order it. I avoid purchasing books from Amazon.

Get it.

 

[beefeater33]

If you haven’t read “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard I strongly recommend that as well. A first hand account of Robert Scott’s ill-fated South Pole Expedition. A remarkable story of unfathomable endurance.

You may also enjoy the novel “The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven” by Nathaniel Ian Miller. Know to us here, as @odobenus

Great little page turner set on Svalbard with pipes galore and a pup named after a certain pipe making legend

Damn!............... I've enjoyed Odob's cigar smoking posts and never put the two together............
Thanks for that- Putting it on my must read list now............

 

[ashdigger]

Here’s another great book - Erebus

 

[alaskanpiper]

Watching “Chasing Shackleton” right now. Y’all got me in the mood. Modern day dudes trying to recreate his lifeboat journey to South Georgia using only 1914 era equipment.

 

[ashdigger]

Watching “Chasing Shackleton” right now. Y’all got me in the mood. Modern day dudes trying to recreate his lifeboat journey to South Georgia using only 1914 era equipment.

That’s a fantastic show

 

[Briar Lee]

History is so much more fascinating than legend.

—-


“Fancy that ridiculous Shackleton & his South Pole — in the crash of the world.
“When all the sick & wounded have been tended, when all their impoverished & broken hearted homes have been restored, when every hospital is gorged with money, & every charitable subscription is closed, then & not till then would I concern myself with those penguins. I suppose however something will have to be done.”
— letter from Winston Churchill to his wife, writing from a Flanders trench, 1916 [Churchill in WWI]
—-

Of course, in the event, something was done and Shackleton passed into legend.

 

[scloyd]

I went to our local independent bookstore today to buy “The Worst Journey in the World” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, recommended by @alaskanpiper and it wasn't available, so I bought


I can't wait to start reading Endurance. The problem is I'm currently reading


If I read both at the same time I'll be so confused. Shackleton and his crew will be solving the murder mystery and Kurt Wallander will be sailing to Antarctica.

"The Worst Journey in the World" is on my list of must reads.