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Title: Lightweight Treatment of a Heavyweight Subject
Review: I have recently discovered the "doomed adventure" genre, and would have enjoyed this book were it the only one of the genre I read. I felt that the author skimmed over too much detail that, for me, makes these tales so compelling. For instance, how did they cook their food at such high altitude and low temperatures? What did the men back at base camp do all day? Why did Scott insist that one of his colleagues abandon his skis in favor of marching through deep snow and a crevasse-strewn landscape?I realize that she was working with diaries, and was hampered by the fact that the pole party did not survive. Still, some "nuts and bolts" of the daily processes and challenges faced would have been much more satisfying to me, and perhaps would have shown more in-depth research of this fascinating subject of early polar exploration.
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