"It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man". Psalm 118:8 #Faith

Trapped on an ice-flow with no hope of rescue, where do you turn? For Shackleton, the answer was to the Bible. He carefully sliced out a couple of chapters from Job and Psalm 23 to take with him on what was going to be an impossible journey. Where would you turn? Learn more about the Bible here (scroll down for the Story of the Bible).

My great, great grandfather's Bible purchased in New York City in 1853. My interest in the Apostle Paul was triggered by a question...

Mariner's 1850 Bible Stranded on an ice-floe, with no hope of rescue Shackleton and his crew had no idea how valuable their example would...

Ed. Note: Worsley and Macklin wrote similar entries about being perfectly content with their situation. Orde-Lees' Journal - December 11,...

Editor's Note: This is one of the Bible passages that Shackleton took with him when they abandoned Endurance . The Lord is my shepherd. I...

When Shackleton abandoned Endurance , he took the Bible Queen Alexandra had given the expedition and, with a penknife, he carefully...

Frank Hurley describes how Shackleton led his team through the crisis: "When the ship broke up, Shackleton met the crisis with complete...

Wild and Shackleton at the wreck The Boss writes in South... Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of...

When Shackleton finally got back to London in mid-1917, he was asked to speak at a boy's school. He couldn't make it but he wrote back...

When doing the impossible - catching the Nimrod, surviving the boat journeys, crossing South Georgia, Shackleton had a rock solid faith...