The Quest Chronicle blog and its origins
In early 2021, it was suggested that I set up a blog to document the “100-years-ago” story of the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition as an unfolding diary. The blog launched in March 2021 and ran though the year up to January 4 2022, the eve of the centenary of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s death at South Georgia. By this time, I had decided that the story should be presented in a book and so transferred efforts to that cause – resulting in The Quest Chronicle being published in September 2022. 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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Dive to the wreck of Quest
A team of marine researchers have taken the first ever photographs of the wreck of Shackleton’s last ship Quest, 1000 feet down in the Labrador Sea. Quest Chronicle author Jan Chojecki was on the “2026 Heroic Age Expedition”, a partnership between the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). On…
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The Quest Chronicle : January 1922
“I saw a lone star hover gem-like above the bay” – Ernest Shackleton, 4 January 1922 The Quest Chronicle blog ends here – some months before the publication of the book of the same name, as described elsewhere at this website. Please send us your feedback – we hope you enjoyed the blog of Quest…
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1922: January 1-4
Sunday 1 January 1922 Shackleton has made no entries in his diary since five days after leaving Plymouth, 29 September, but now writes: “Rested and calm after the storm. The year has begun kindly for us. It is curious how a date becomes a factor in one’s life. Christmas Day in the raging gale seemed…