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Beneath the Shadow - Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic (Paperback)
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Beneath the Shadow - Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic (Paperback)
Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
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In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a
photographer with a National Geographic-sponsored cruise line,
Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of
sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the
narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling firsthand
account that breathes new life into the nineteenth-century journals
of Antarctic explorers such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir
Ernest Henry Shackleton, and Captain Roald Amundsen. Beneath the
Shadow is centered on journal excerpts by eight famous explorers,
which Gardiner uses as touchstones for modern-day experiences of
harsh seas, chance encounters, rugged terrain, and unspeakable
beauty. With equal parts levity and lyricism, Gardiner navigates
the distance between the historical and the contemporary, the
artistic and the scientific, the heroic and the mundane. The bold
and tragic tales of Antarctic explorers have long held our
collective imagination?almost as much as the mythically remote land
such explorers ventured to?and this book makes those voices come to
life as few ever have.
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