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A beautifully written scary-as-can-be real life experience in Anartica. In 1934, Admital Byrd was truly alone, with help a mind-numbing 80-mile trek across the nothingness of Antarctica in the -50 degree darkness of winter. Byrd writes with knowledge, honesty and humility as he tells of his experience. Refreshingly free from self-agrandizing egoticism. I was simultaneously reading Alone and The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel. And the Maine hermit is nothing more than a kid playing in a
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