Irish-British explorer Ernest Shackleton received a telegram from ... and had earned eternal fame for his leadership. Dozens of books, films, and events have been dedicated to the brave leader ...

They also fire the imaginations of the young Lewis and his new friend Davy, a working-class boy from the shipyard area of the ...

A postcard from Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) in Cape Town to his then fiancée Emily Dorman in London appeared at a recent sale at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin’s. Despite achieving an impressive sum, an ...

The book has been translated into various languages ... longer in the frozen wastes than either Captain Scott or Ernest Shackleton. Tom outlived both the more famous men and retired to Kerry ...

It’s the last frontier on Earth, a place where explorers such as Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen became legends. But for me, the trip to Antarctica followed in the snowy footsteps of my ...

“It’s never written about the ordinary men. And when I read these books about Scott and Shackleton, this fellow Tom Crean kept cropping up all the way through the story. Not just as a bit part ...

It will house exclusive archive collections from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and the internationally significant Hope Cross, the original memorial erected to Sir Ernest Shackleton on ...

Last year the Hope Cross, a poignant memorial to polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton from his crew, went on display at Discovery Point after a journey of more than 7,000 miles from the South ...