by Audrey Benedict | Jun 26, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #69: Drifting On Ice! click images to enlarge ePostcard #69: Drifting On Ice! By October, ceaseless pressure from pack ice would force the crew to abandon the Endurance. I can’t imagine what a profoundly emotional departure that must have been. With the ruin...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 25, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #68: Endurance in a World of Ice! click images to enlarge ePostcard #68: Endurance in a World of Ice! The expedition arrived at South Georgia on November 5th 1914, and Shackleton and his men would learn much from the whaling captains about the conditions in...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 24, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #67: Endurance Underway! As Germany declared war on Russia, August 1st, 1914, Shackleton left London on his ship the Endurance intending to be the first to successfully complete a trans-Antarctic expedition. It took 4 months to reach a whaling yard in South...
by Audrey Benedict | Jun 23, 2020 | ePostCards
ePostcard #66: Shackleton’s Endurance “We all have our White South.”Ernest Shackleton The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914–1917) has haunted me for nearly 40 years. Most historians regard it as the...
