Anthony Brandt > Quotes

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.”
― Anthony Brandt

“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.”
― Anthony Brandt

“The key to success is often the ability to adapt.”
― Anthony Brandt

“The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.”
― Anthony Brandt

“By 1854, when the search was called off, almost every corner of the Canadian archipelago below the 77th parallel had been traversed, drawn, and recorded on large maps carefully tipped into the papers. So fragile now they hardly bear touching, they are still in their spare precision beautiful and moving, the tangible result of the toes and fingers lost to frostbite, the starvation and profound exhaustion and sometimes the death of me dragging heavy sledges over rough ice or through deep snow, skirting the edge of human endurance.”
― Anthony Brandt, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

“Thanks to global warming it is beginning to seem likely that the Northwest Passage will open for longer and longer periods each year, until, perhaps by the end of this century, ice will have vanished from the world altogether and the ancient dream of a Northwest Passage will have been, unexpectedly and inadvertently, realized.”
― Anthony Brandt, The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage