Status Updates From The Frozen Ship: The Histor...

Shackleton is conventionally seen as the last in the "Age of Heroism", but of course heroism of all kinds continues in the Antarctic as everywhere else, and it would be foolish to give weight to Nostalgia for the days when Polar exploration was—and celebrated being—male, white and frequently dead.

"The search for a Northeast or Northwest Passage was a remarkable triumph of greed over experience, and it killed thousands of strong and healthy young men in slow and messy ways without achieving anything more lucrative than better cartography."

"Like many explorers who did not harm the natives and brought back most of their own men without untoward events, he is rarely discussed, but Davis accurately mapped all of the west coast of Greenland and some of the east as well as a surprisingly large part of the archipelago."