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The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage QUOTES

1 " By 1854, when the search was called off, almost every corner of the Canadian archipelago below the 77th parallel had been traversed, drawn, and recorded on large maps carefully tipped into the papers. So fragile now they hardly bear touching, they are still in their spare precision beautiful and moving, the tangible result of the toes and fingers lost to frostbite, the starvation and profound exhaustion and sometimes the death of me dragging heavy sledges over rough ice or through deep snow, skirting the edge of human endurance. "

― , The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage

2 " Thanks to global warming it is beginning to seem likely that the Northwest Passage will open for longer and longer periods each year, until, perhaps by the end of this century, ice will have vanished from the world altogether and the ancient dream of a Northwest Passage will have been, unexpectedly and inadvertently, realized. "

― , The Man Who Ate His Boots: The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage