polar exploration
Books
- Endurance: Shackleton's Impossible Voyage Home Leadership at the Edge of the World · 李思特Think
In 1914, Ernest Shackleton set out to cross Antarctica. By 1915, his ship was crushed in the ice, and his twenty-eight-man crew was stranded on the most inhospitable continent on Earth.
- The Unfinished Business…Weddell Sea party was the Endurance. Her origin story is a critical piece of the expedition’s character, evidence of the persistent gap in polar exploration between monumental ambition and constrained means. She was not a purpose-built icebreaker. She was a wooden barquentine, three-masted and s…
- Selecting the Company…mance of a single part. This philosophy of selection represented a conscious departure from the institutional norms that had shaped British polar exploration. The Royal Navy’s approach, exemplified in Scott’s expeditions, was an extension of its own hierarchical structure: formal rank, technical…
- The Weddell Sea Trap…the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, a journey of eighteen hundred miles that would claim the last major prize in polar exploration. The ship was the first instrument of that plan, designed to penetrate the pack ice, deposit the shore party at Vahsel Bay, and withdraw be…