![]() The crew were chosen and the boat was set to sail at the outset of WWI. However the chance of gaining acclaim for accomplishing such a feat was enough to get hundreds of men to sign up. The crew, an assortment of various sailors and craftsmen, were warned of the dangers and low pay of such a venture. He was simply looking for prominence in one of the last places one could find it at that time. Shackleton is described as a man who admittedly "was not really good at anything". The South Pole had already been discovered, but apparently that was not enough to stake a claim to the entire continent at that time. Their goal, once they got there, would be to walk across the continent and claim it for England. He set out with 27 other adventurous young men (mostly from the UK) in a modest ship bound for the icy world of Antarctica. ![]() Shackelton was an adventurer looking for greatness in perhaps the last great uncharted portion of the earth at that time. ![]() The Endurance is a truly fascinating account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's failed Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916. ![]()
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