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Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Expeditions, Pt. 1

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Shackleton's Life and Work in the Maritimes

Shackleton worked his way up through the ranks, sailing all over the world. He earned his certificate as a master mariner in april of 18 98, at the age of 24. In march of 19 hundred, he and the ship's surgeon, w mc lean, published o h m s, or how 12 hundred soldiers went to table bay. This was an account of the voya, and it was shackleton's first major published work. It was also on this voyage that shackleton met lieutenant cedric longstaff, whose father was one of the major financial backers of the british national antarctic expedition. And shackleton wound up joining the pedition as

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