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“Two Dutch, two Americans, one German and one Australian. And yet, as the rocket began to quake beneath us, my mind focused on a man in Antarctica. I thought about Sam "Snowbow" Archambeau waiting for the September sunrise to reach the South Pole. I smiled recalling him getting a haircut in a lawn chair next to the frozen barbershop pole." -- Nikki in the upcoming novel, "Nikki White: Polar Extremes" (Nikki, #3)”

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Book:Nikki White: Polar Extremes

Source: Nikki White: Polar Extremes

“In broad terms, we are trying to find the Endurance so that she might be protected into the future, when conservation science will have advenced sufficiently for a responsible body to consider raising her remains for preservation and public display.”

Inspirational Science South Pole Antarctic

Book:The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

Source: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance

“Ships can give you moments of subliminal happiness but they can also stretch you in ways you never thought possible.”

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Book:The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

Source: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

“It used to be said that the sea was a ruthlessly hostile environment which you only ventured at your peril.”

Inspirational Science Adventure Explorers Antarctica Ships At Sea Sea Life South Pole

Book:The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

Source: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance

“All in the immediate vicinity of the ship, is the blackness of eternal night, and a chaos of foamless water; but, about a league on either side of us, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the universe.”

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Book:MS. Found in a Bottle

Source: MS. Found in a Bottle