Shackleton's Relentless Return
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean steamer *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. This was...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 15:3-7.
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean steamer Yelcho, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. This was his fourth attempt in three months to reach the twenty-two men he had left stranded on that desolate spit of rock and ice. Three previous rescue ships had been turned back by pack ice. Any reasonable man would have accepted the loss.…
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