There is something important in reading or listening to true stories about people who have accomplished great things under difficult circumstances. Such stories often provide the reader/listener with ...

The recent discovery of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance has thrust his epic tale of Antarctic survival into the limelight once again. The story still resonates with readers more than a century ...

In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth.

This retelling of the Shackleton story originally aired in 1999 on NPR, and was a Minnesota Public Radio/AmericanRadioWorks/NPR production. It's always seemed the perfect radio listening the weekend ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton and his ship, the Endurance, have a truly captivating story from 1915. Interestingly, it’s not because the planned expedition was successful, but because despite failure and ...

The Academy Award–winning husband-and-wife directors ('Free Solo') explain how they recreated the "greatest survival story ever told" for their new Nat Geo documentary. By Julian Sancton Senior ...

In 2022, an international crew aboard the icebreaker Agulhas II sailed back to the Endurance’s last known coordinates with the aim of using the latest undersea exploration technology to search for the ...

THIS account of an unsuccessful attempt to cross the South Polar Continent is aptly characterized by the author and leader of the expedition as a ‘book of high adventure, strenuous days, lonely nights ...

It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

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