"MEN WANTED: FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS. SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON"
Advertisement placed in London newspapers for Shackleton’s trip to Antarctica, 1914 (via invisiblestories)
Mindblowing really what they went through back then. My man is in Antarctica now and the situation is still similar…constant danger, hazardous journey, long months of darkness etc. Come home soon babe.
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