Shackleton

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Royal Geographical Society

Out to Sea
Hurley recorded the departure of the Caird (above), though he would doctor the latter image and name it The Rescue, implying it showed Shackleton's heroic return. The men who had been left behind were hardly this hale when the Yelcho arrived to save them.

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