Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play On a wall to the left of the restored photo there is a framed copy of Rudyard Kipling's poem "If," which Shackleton is known to have personally taken with him. Shackleton encouraged his men to take a book or two with them when they had to abandon ship, as Erin Blakemore writes for Smithsonian. The men on the expedition would have had access to the entire library for the first 10 months of their struggle to survive, when the Endurance was locked in the ice floes but had not yet sunk.Įven after the Endurance sank and the men prepared to camp on the ice-and later make a dash in the lifeboats to Elephant Island-they would have had some of the reading material. Shackleton leant the books on the Endurance freely to his crew, so the new photo represents the vast majority of what the entire expedition would have used to retain mental clarity, find inspiration, and kill idle time. The photos of the expedition's ship Endurance are stunning, but one photo taken of the inside of Shackleton's cabin just revealed some exciting new information: the books that Shackleton had in his private library onboard. Photos taken by Frank Hurley during Ernest Shackleton's infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition-a journey that saw 28 men marooned near Antarctica for 17 months and live to tell the tale-were recently restored by the Royal Geographical Society in London. A photograph of Shackleton\’s cabin aboard the The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers
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