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Endurance Week 6: "We've done it."
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Endurance Week 6: "We've done it."

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The launching of the Caird.

I. Always and forever there was the water. 

If you thought making landfall on Elephant Island was dramatic, then this final section of the book likely blew your mind — as it did mine when I first read it. 

For 15 interminably long days, Shackleton, Worsley, Crean, Vincent, McCarthy, and McNish sailed through the Drake Passage — …

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