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Endurance Week 3: On the Ice
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Endurance Week 3: On the Ice

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Nov 19, 2022
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Ice rips the Endurance apart

We started the week by closing out Part I of the book, in which the pressure of the ice, “like a sluggish shock wave,” forced the men from the ship. The Endurance “was done, and nobody needed to tell them.” From here on out, then men existed on a series of ice floes and islands. Can you even imagine?

In Part II, we find some o…

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