Quotes About Adventure

It was served at breakfast, along with five ounces of seal steak.

By two-thirty, the Caird was a little more than 3 miles off the coast

She was to carry the Ross Sea party, under the command of Lieutenant Aeneas Mackintosh, who had served aboard the Nimrod on Shackleton's 1907–1909 expedition.

The sea leopard's jawbone, which measured nearly 9 inches across

Crean hurriedly took over the helm from Worsley who spread the chart out so that he and Shackleton might study

Charles Darwin, on first seeing these waves breaking on Tierra del Fuego in 1833, wrote in his diary:

The sight . . . is enough to make a landsman dream for a week about death, peril and shipwreck.

They were 21 feet 9 inches long, with a 6-foot-2-inch beam, and they had three seats

They also mounted stubby masts to which a sail could be secured;

It had been very nearly a year since they had last been in contact with civilization

Shackleton estimated the shelf ice off the Palmer Peninsula—the nearest known land—to be 182 miles WSW of them.

The nearest known place where they might at least find food and shelter was tiny Paulet Island

Then, at just about two o'clock, they saw where they were.

Shackelton rushed aft and took over the lines of the tiller from Crean.

Shackleton shouted excitedly to McNeish and Vincent below to shift ballast

craggy peak off the port bow. It was Annenkov Island

And they realized at once that it lay directly in their path.

with the possible exception of the Fram, the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen, and later by Amundsen.

However, on the trip from London to Buenos Aires

her hull was altogether too rounded for most of those on board her.

The trip across the Atlantic took more than two months.

The simple act of sailing had carried him beyond the world of reversals, frustrations, and inanities. And in the space of a few short hours, life had been reduced from a highly complex existence, with a thousand petty problems, to one of the barest simplicity in which only one real task remained—the achievement of the goal.

They looked up against the darkening sky and saw the fog curling over the edge of the ridges, perhaps 2,000 feet above them—and they felt that special kind of pride of a person who in a foolish moment accepts an impossible dare—then pulls it off to perfection.

Each dog in turn was taken off his trace and led behind a row of large ice hummocks.