“You will remain here until relief arrives. You have ample seal food which you can supplement with birds and fish according to your skill.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“Dear Sir, In the event of my not surviving the boat journey to South Georgia you will do your best for the rescue of the party.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“Wonderful, amazing splendid. Lat. 65°43' South–73 miles North drift. The most cheerful good fortune for a year for us: We cannot be much more than 170 miles from Paulet. Everyone greeted the news with cheers.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“One hardly likes to guess what our distance may be, but tonight is the fourth of this blow and there are no signs of it abating so we ought to have made a good distance to the North.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“I am rather tired, I suppose it is the strain. ...I long for some rest, free from thought.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“The last day of the old year: May the new one bring us good fortune, a safe deliverance from this anxious time & all good things to those we love so far away.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“We had seen God in His splendors, we had heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com
“I pray God I can manage to get the whole party safe to civilization.”— Ernest Shackleton, amazon.com