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"South" by Ernest Shackleton

book review by Riley Burnham 4/8/2024

well.......

i went through this entire [audio]book, dozing a few times & rewinding...

knowing the earth is flat, etc., & that Antarctica is... different than the common notion [i sincerely think], i went into this w/ a huge amount of skepticism

the basic story is that Shackleton & his men are stranded in the way south, surviving on breaking ice w/ their draining provisions & what they can resource

the narrative is lucidly told by Shackleton, who includes datapoints throughout & a captain's-reading-style play-by-play

it's pretty good, actually, although i doubt its overall premise, & think it's probably a political distraction or something-or-other [this comes out around WW1]

it's all about that blubber

a certainty is that it's treacherous & cold way out there