Stars.
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) in The Worst Journey in the World, his 566 page first-hand account of Sir Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition.
awritersrejections replied to your photoset “jemaineclement: Quickfire with Tribeca Shortlist”
Okay, I love nyc infinitely forever, but “nautical lit section” is a pretty compelling reason I should move to portland.
The discovery that the reason why I couldn’t find any Patrick O’Brian novels in the literature section was because they were all in an aisle dedicated just to LITERATURE OF THE SEA was about as great as the time I couldn’t find Endurance in the adventuring section because there was an entire floor-to-ceiling panel devoted specifically to POLAR EXPLORATION.
