by Tod Olson
“The ship reverberates with hammers”: Hurley diary, Oct. 12, 1915
“She seemed to say”: Worsley diary, Oct. 18, 1915
“He was a cruel looking shark-like beast”: Lees diary, Oct. 20, 1915
“The whole sensation”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 57
“Mind you put your old diary in my bag”: Lees diary, Oct. 27, 1915
“We are homeless and adrift”: Hurley diary, Oct. 28, 1915
“I hope you haven’t lost that cigarette case”: Lees diary, Oct. 28, 1915
“for the first time in my life, we realized”: Lees diary, Oct. 27, 1915
Chapter 7: “She’s Gone”
“As always with him”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 94
“All are in high hopes”: Hurley diary, Oct. 30, 1915
“So long as we have the bare minimum”: Lees diary, Nov. 1, 1915
Unlike cold-blooded fish or reptiles: effects of cold on energy expenditure in Hamblin, “How Being Cold Burns Calories”
“All we seem to live for”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 69
“What this means to us”: Lees diary, Nov. 4, 1915
“She’s going!”: Lees diary, Nov. 21, 1915
“I cannot write about it”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 109
Chapter 8: A Miserable Job
Lees added sausage: incident described in Lees diary, Nov. 22, 1915. Lees spends a lot of time complaining to his diary that no one but him understands the need to ration their food.
“nasal trombone”: Worsley diary, March 12, 1916
“As far as I have seen”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 89
“I hate to see so much good food”: Lees diary, Dec. 22, 1915
“The Boss at any rate has changed his mind”: Wordie, “Weddell Sea Log,” Dec. 29, 1915
“His sublime optimism”: quoted in Butler, The Endurance
Chapter 9: Lash Up and Stow!
“Lees and Worsley are the only pessimistic ones”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 108
“The result was very satisfactory”: Hurley diary, Feb. 19, 1916
“stewed penguin heart”: McNish diary, Feb. 17, 1916
“The monotony of life here”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 104
“At times like this”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 118
“Hunger is now our lot”: Lees diary, March 24, 1916
“We implore him not to get thin”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 122
“Land in sight!”: Lees diary, March 23, 1916
“General rejoicing!”: Hurley diary, March 23, 1916
“A flock of Dominican gulls passed over”: Lees diary, March 24, 1916
“[W]e are in the hands of a Higher Power”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 135
Chapter 10: An Infinity of Ice
“Are you alright?”: Shackleton, South, 121
“infinity of ice-covered ocean-berg fragments”: Hurley diary, April 11, 1916
“splitting, pulverising crash”: Lees diary, April 11, 1916
“Never was dawn more anxiously awaited”: Hurley diary, April 13, 1916
“wild and savage”: Hurley diary, April 15, 1916
“misers gloating over hoarded gold”: Shackleton, South, 140
Chapter 11: Our Only Hope
“How delicious to wake”: Hurley diary, April 15, 1916
“like the courtyard of a prison”: quoted in Smith, Sir James Wordie, 81
“A more inhospitable place”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 185
“dragged from their bags”: Wordie, “Weddell Sea Log,” April 21, 1916
“I don’t think there will be many survivors”: McNish diary, April 20, 1916
“The boss is wonderful”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 130
“I would rather die”: Lees diary, April 23, 1916
“six proven veterans”: Hurley diary, April 24, 1916
“She is our only hope”: Wordie, “Weddell Sea Log,” April 25, 1916
Chapter 12: Across the Sea
Their first night out in the Caird: Worsley recounts Shackleton’s reflections that night in Worsley, Endurance, 101–105
“One sight …” quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 226
“that’s the last of them”: Wild’s own account, quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 171
“All attempts seemed so hopeless”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 173
He figured they’d made 128 miles: distances and the account of the Caird’s journey are from Shackleton, South, 152–191; Worsley, Endurance, 101–123; and Worsley’s notes in his diary, probably made shortly after the boat journey
“This is the first time we have seen it”: Lees diary, May 2, 1916
“We manage to get most of our gear”: Worsley diary, May 4, 1916
“the most motley and unkempt assembly”: Hurley diary, May 10, 1916
Chapter 13: Over the Mountains
The men picked their way across the foot of a glacier: crossing of South Georgia described in this account taken mostly from Shackleton, South, 192–204, and Worsley, Endurance, 145–162
“Starboard!” “Port!” “Steady!”: Worsley, Endurance, 148
“Lash up and stow!”: Shackleton, South, 215
“Installing ourselves for the winter”: Hurley diary, May 23, 1916
“In spite of everything”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 202
“It’s not good to do that kind of thing”: Worsley, Endurance, 156
“Don’t you know me?”: Shackleton, South, 201
Chapter 14: Last Stand
They steamed out of the bay and turned west for Elephant Island: account of the rescue attempts based on Shackleton, South, 205–217, and Worsley, Endurance, 163–179
“Rejoice to hear of your safe arrival”: Shackleton, South, 209
“One cannot help but be a bit anxious”: Lees diary, June 7, 1916
“without even so much as thinking”: quoted in Lansing, Endurance, 209
“Everyone spent the day rotting”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 176
“The idea of a ship ever coming now”: Lees diary, Aug. 29, 1916
“Wild, there’s a ship!”: Lees diary, Aug. 30, 1916
“Are you all well?”: Worsley, Endurance, 179
Epilogue: Coming Home
“I had to say goodbye”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 188
“We were like men arisen from the dead”: Shackleton, South, 205
“ ’E ought ter ’ave been at the war”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 188
“Tripp, you don’t know what I’ve been through”: quoted by Fergus Fleming in the introduction to Shackleton, South, xii
“I am just good as an explorer”: quoted in Smith, Shackleton, 271
“Shackleton afloat was a more likeable character”: quoted in Smith, Shackleton, 399
“a pair of excitable kids”: quoted in Huntford, Shackleton, 689
“Ah what memories”: quoted in Alexander, The Endurance, 194
“I shall go on going”: quoted in Huntford, Shackleton, 689
I owe a great debt to a couple of writers who spent years researching the Endurance expedition. Shane Murphy and Margot Morrell put in long hours transcribing diaries from the crew members, most of which are unpublished and housed in research libraries from England to Australia to New Zealand. Shane was generous enough to share them with me. Rob Stephenson, who coordinates an informal group of researchers called the Antarctic Circle, also saved me many hours by pointing me in fruitful directions.
I’m grateful to Marc Aronson for the series title and to Marc and John Glenn for helping to shape the idea. Many thanks also to friends and colleagues Leda Schubert, Daphne Kalmar, Lauren Tarshis, Rick Vanden Bergh, Jeff Fannon, and John Hollar.
Laura Williams McCaffrey gave the book its first expert read and reality check. Elizabeth Ward answered a last-minute plea for help. Richard Olson read with care and insight, and Jill Olson trudged gamely through the ice. Writing ca
n be a lonely craft, and the gift of time and interest from friends, colleagues, and family is indispensable.
Thanks as always to Miriam Altshuler for her wise advice and for truly caring about the books. Thanks to Paige Hazzan, who is moving on to an adventure of her own, to Amanda Shih for picking up where Paige left off, and to Lisa Sandell for taking the series under her wing.
And finally, I’m eternally grateful to Estie and Richard for giving me whatever survival skills I possess; and to Jill, Zoë, and Finn for surviving me.
TOD OLSON is the author of the historical fiction series How to Get Rich and the first three books in this series, Lost in the Pacific, 1942; Lost in Outer Space; and Lost in the Amazon. He holds an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Vermont with his family, his mountain bike, and his electric reclining chair.
LOST IN THE PACIFIC, 1942
LOST IN OUTER SPACE
LOST IN THE AMAZON
LOST IN THE ANTARCTIC
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