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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2019 14:05:05 GMT -5
Sir Ernest Shackleton lead an expedition to cross the Antartic (1914-1917). Unfortunately they never made it and were shipwrecked for 20 months. The thing they missed the most was tobacco. Read an interesting account here. |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 6, 2019 14:16:30 GMT -5
Read it and agree...last thing I would want to be without is my tobacco and pipe.
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Post by Legend Lover on Aug 6, 2019 14:20:57 GMT -5
Thanks for that.
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Post by stone on Aug 6, 2019 15:48:44 GMT -5
What an amazing story! Sad sadness, some laughs at their attempts to replicate tobacco, and some very, very, hardy men!
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Post by Mac on Aug 6, 2019 17:08:30 GMT -5
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Post by Wolfman on Aug 6, 2019 17:44:25 GMT -5
Thank you for sharing this. What a story!
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Aug 6, 2019 19:14:27 GMT -5
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Post by crapgame on Aug 7, 2019 9:17:43 GMT -5
I have the book titled "south with endurance" and it is Frank Hurkey's photo record of the failed expidition. Outstanding coffee table book!
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Post by jitterbugdude on Aug 7, 2019 11:25:32 GMT -5
Just bought the book from Amazon!
That expedition occurred back when men were men!!!!
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 7, 2019 11:32:50 GMT -5
Just bought the book from Amazon! That expedition occurred back when men were men!!!! ...and women were women and everyone knew the difference. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Aug 7, 2019 11:40:25 GMT -5
Just bought the book from Amazon! That expedition occurred back when men were men!!!! ...and women were women and everyone knew the difference. what's the difference between a snow-woman and a snowman? 'sno balls. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 7, 2019 11:45:45 GMT -5
Same thing happened with the HMS Erebus. They got stranded in the NW Passage and ran out of tobacco. Whole expedition went insane and murdered each other. 😉
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 7, 2019 12:05:44 GMT -5
Cool story. I'm glad it had a happy ending. Anyone else laugh when the captain got back to men who had been starving on an island for months and threw cigarettes at them? Hahahaha
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Post by Stearmandriver on Aug 8, 2019 2:07:20 GMT -5
Endurance is a wonderful book on one of the greatest survival and leadership tales of all time. Frank Worsley's navigation to South Georgia is a legendary feat among today's sailors and scholars of traditional navigation; it's entirely possible that there has not been a person alive for several generations now who could do what he did.
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Aug 8, 2019 7:01:28 GMT -5
Just bought the book from Amazon! That expedition occurred back when men were men!!!! ...and women were women and everyone knew the difference. Brilliant!!!! |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Aug 8, 2019 7:31:03 GMT -5
Same thing happened with the HMS Erebus. They got stranded in the NW Passage and ran out of tobacco. Whole expedition went insane and murdered each other. 😉 captain got back to men who had been starving on an island for months and threw cigarettes at them? Hahahaha That is what I'd be lookin' for....food can wait. |
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