The Quest Chronicle blog and its origins
In early 2021, it was suggested that I set up a blog to document the โ100-years-agoโ story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition as an unfolding diary.ย ย The blog launched in March 2021 and ran though the year up to January 4 2022, the eve of the centenary of Sir Ernest Shackletonโs death at South Georgia.ย ย ย By this time, I had decided that the story should be presented in a book and so transferred efforts to that cause โ resulting in The Quest Chronicle being published in September 2022.ย ย This part of our website contains just some of the posts from the original blog.
Blog posts are listed below in reverse chronological order.
Jan Chojecki
-
1921 January – March
In January 1921, Shackleton acquires a 4-year-old Norwegian sealer, Foca 1. The ship is especially […]
-
The beginning
While teenagers at school at Dulwich College in the 1890โs, Ernest Shackleton meets John Quiller […]
-
Prince Olav Harbour
Prince Olav Harbour whaling station, South Georgia, 1922 – from a photograph by George Hubert […]