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Ernest Shackleton

Short History Of...

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The Adventures of Shackleton

On January eighteenth, they enter the ice pack. They make their way through ten miles of mushy, lumpy snow it's dangerous. Buth ton insists that the endurance continues onless. For almost a week, they continue determinedly on until they can go no further. The ship is stuck fast a part of the ice. By late february, they've started drifting northwards, away from their prize. Shackleton has no choice but to accept that they stuck for the winter.

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