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My good friend the Governor said I could settle down at Port Stanley and take things quietly for a f...

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i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on ...

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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul ...

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

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Ernest Shackleton

Explorer

Born: 1874-02-15

Died: 1922-01-05

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton CVO OBE (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish explorer, now chiefly remembered for his Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917 in the ship Endurance.More