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
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24-27 December, 1921
Saturday 24 December, 1921 โ Christmas Eve At 8 am, in 40 ft waves, with […]
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19 – 23 December 1921
Soon after leaving Rio, Shackleton complains of severe neuralgic pains in the chest and back […]
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16-18 December 1921 – Rio & South Georgia
Friday 16 December, 1921 Gerald Lysaght, “the General” to the Quest crew, is back in […]