Mawson's will

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1. EdwardDiegoMar 2022
   I've just purchased Ranulph Fiennes' biography of Shackleton and definitely recommend that one, also I really enjoyed Endurance by Alfred Lansing, also about Shackleton's expedition.

   Fiennes' also wrote a good book about Amundsen and Scott, Race to the Pole.

   I've heard good things about "Mawson's Will" by Lennard Bickel.

   (I tend to focus on Antarctica due to its proximity and the historical connections to Antarctic exploration in my area)

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2. british_indiaMay 2017
   When you get comfortable reading a lot, you don't need to re-read books. Certainly, a rare few books benefit from multiple readings but not all. I retain a surprising amount of details and can describe passages from Dickens and the main argument of David Cay Johnson's "Perfectly Legal" or the amazing survival story of "Mawson's Will" or an amusing passage in Ernest Hemingway's journalism story "A Free Shave" or the images of the amputation tent in Tolstoy's "The Sebaastopol Sketches--to name a tiny few.

   Once your reading is not going "put-put-put" and your unbroken attention span reaches an hour, you may feel like you need to re-read. Certainly, it's a nice experience but it's really a waste of time re-reading everything.

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