Hello feathered friends.

In honor, of this incredible print John Stortz made of Ernest Shackelton for me, I present you some snippets of Thomas Orde-Lees’ diary. Orde-Lees documented Shackelton’s extroidinary adventures in the Antartica from March 1915-April 1916. His account largely aided Shackelton write his book, South.

The sketch in his diary above is from the October 18, 1915: “the ship was heaved up suddenly and violently and immediately rolled over slowly onto her side until she lay on her port side.”

Source: Rauner Library and Dartmouth University