Wednesday, March 14, 2018

As for this Shackleton . . . this so-called Shackleton . . . .

I was just reading a New York Times article about a whisky that was inspired by / modeled after whiskey that Sir Ernest Shackleton took with him to Antarctica, and I found this bit of description of him interesting:

"He was an instinctive, natural leader who somehow inspired others to share impossible hardships with him." 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/drinking-ernest-shackletons-whisky.html


It also talks about what a shitty human being Shackleton was. 1

WEll . . . that sounds familiar, dudn'tit?



1    Which I didn't know about. Guess I should have finished watching that Branagh mini-series. 

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