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...Ms Shackleton worries that tourists visiting the historic spa town are swimming in sewage without realising it....
...Rudd had expected to attempt perhaps the purest version of Shackleton’s dream without competition....
...Early customers included Florence Nightingale, Ernest Shackleton and Captain Robert Scott and the shop has remained popular with expedition planners ever since....
...Reviewing various accounts of the lives of great explorers such as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, he laments their necessary incompleteness, the muting of “the dissonant buzz of witnesses”; historical...
...Robert and Barney Swan will attempt a double — first father and son team to ski to the pole, and first to use only renewable energy to power cooking and ice melting....
...Frankly, I felt irritated just reading some of them and I found my mind taking refuge in Ernest Shackleton’s terse little advertisement for his 1914 expedition (“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages...
...For the British there are two great Antarctic photographers: Frank Hurley, who travelled south with Ernest Shackleton, and Herbert Ponting, who travelled with Robert Scott....
...Robert Peary, an early claimant for the title of first to reach the North Pole, carried a Waltham as did Sir Ernest Shackleton on his expedition to the South Pole....
...Kath Shackleton, who has a studio called Fettle on the edge of Manchester, runs the AllAnimated network....
...Jonathan Shackleton (cousin of Sir Ernest Shackleton) and Falcon Scott (grandson of Robert Falcon Scott) will sail on an 11-day voyage that departs from Ushuaia, Argentina on February 9. www.ycoyacht.com...
...Linton Roberts, managing director, says the work will help the company double its £100m annual revenues over the next five years....
...By contrast Shackleton – a far more successful polar explorer who saved his men’s lives – is a historical footnote....
...Nouveau-Palladian in style, it was designed by I&J Bannerman, creators of the wonderful Antler Temple at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, which was once the home of Robert Walpole, Britain’s first prime minister...
...Robert Shiller is professor of economics and finance at Yale University....
...Robert Reitemeier, former chief executive, the Children’s Society. Peter Riddell, journalist. Tim Rollinson, director-general, Forestry Commission....
...Sir, With reference to your review “Southern exposure” (December 24) Helmer Hanssen’s statement on Captain Robert Scott’s final journey does ring true....
...Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence & Emperor Penguins, by Gavin Francis, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99 It is 101 years since Ernest Shackleton published The Heart of the Antarctic, but the white continent’s...
...It was during the Discovery Expedition of 1901-1903 that Scott, Wilson and Ernest Shackleton made the first journey into Antarctica’s interior....
...In the late 1980s Mr Boland worked for a year for Australian corporate raider Robert Holmes à Court....
...Notable names include: Fiona Shackleton (is this to make amends for Royal divorce business drying up?)...
...George Magan, the financier, is another big City name on the roster, as is Sir Michael Bishop, former BMI chairman, and Robert Edmiston, head of the IM Group....
...January 17 1912: Captain Robert Falcon Scott arrived to plant the Union Jack at the South Pole. “Great God,” he famously wrote in his diary, “this is an awful place.”...
...The real-life records of the partnerships embarked upon by Ted Hughes, Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell or TS Eliot (first time round) are hardly more encouraging....
...One of the most high-profile lawyers in the field is Fiona Shackleton, who acted for Prince Charles and Sir Paul McCartney during their divorces....
...And, of course, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, whose second expedition to the South Pole in 1912 ended in his death....
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