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Sir Ernest Shackleton, in his 1919 book South, described his belief that an incorporeal companion joined him and his men during the final leg of his 1914–1917 Antarctic expedition, which became stranded in pack ice for more than two years and endured immense hardships in the attempt to reach safety.
John Grigsby Geiger CM is an American-born Canadian author and shipwreck hunter. He is best known for his book The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible, [1] which popularized the concept of the "third man", an incorporeal being that aids people under extreme duress.
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent led by Ernest Shackleton.The personnel were divided into two groups: the Weddell Sea party consisting of the men who would attempt the crossing and their support, and the Ross Sea party whose job it was to lay stores on the far side of the Pole for the members of the Weddell Sea party who would make the ...
Bruce generously allowed Shackleton to adopt his plans, [11] although the eventual scheme announced by Shackleton owed little to Bruce. On 29 December 1913, having acquired his first promises of financial backing—a £10,000 grant from the British government—Shackleton made his plans public in a letter to The Times .
Leonard Hussey, a member of the expedition, was with Shackleton during the north Russian campaign, and did the final editing without payment. [3] The rights of the book were assigned to the heirs of Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth, a benefactor of the expedition, who died in 1915. Shackleton was unable to repay money borrowed for the expedition.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.
Harry "Chippy" McNish was born in 1874 in the former Lyons Lane near the present site of the library in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland. [1] He was part of a large family, being the third of eleven children born to John and Mary Jane (née Wade) McNish.
But Hamm, seated near the middle of the class with a binder in his lap, wasn’t buying it. He interrupted the man and began to talk about the limitations of his own faith. Mere belief, he knew, wouldn’t be enough to keep him from using again. “It’s hard to say, man,” Hamm told the others. “We’re all addicts. We all have these ...