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I think I would have quite enjoyed a condensed version of this book, minus the two very long (and fairly useless) introductions, the slog of endless details ( multiple daily temperature readings, accounts of meals, miles logged, weather and sledging surface notes, other record-keeping minutia), and, most importantly the repeated paeans to Cherry's fellow explorers, who, we are repeatedly told, were endowed with marvelous temperaments and almost never complained and were eternally cheerful under
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Can be slow in places with the recitations of cold temperatures and high winds, but he gets you in the gut with the occasional asides of the physical toll and particularly when he gets to the Polar Party's final days. Powerful stuff.
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