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"The search for a Northeast or Northwest Passage was a remarkable triumph of greed over experience, and it killed thousands of strong and healthy young men in slow and messy ways without achieving anything more lucrative than better cartography."
— Aug 08, 2023 09:28AM
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Shackleton is conventionally seen as the last in the "Age of Heroism", but of course heroism of all kinds continues in the Antarctic as everywhere else, and it would be foolish to give weight to Nostalgia for the days when Polar exploration was—and celebrated being—male, white and frequently dead.
— Aug 08, 2023 11:19AM
