Shackleton's Promise to Every Last Man
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. Twenty-two of...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 15:3-7.
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug Yelcho, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. Twenty-two of his men had been stranded there for four months — surviving on penguin meat and seal blubber beneath two overturned lifeboats. This was his fourth rescue attempt. Three previous ships had been turned back by pack ice.…
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