theamericanscholar: The Daily Scholar: Alone and Freezing Cold Avid armchair traveler Priscilla Long divulges her latest exploits on the Antarctic ice shelf with explorer Richard Byrd. Byrd sojourned to the ice shelf “to taste peace and quiet and solitude long enough to find out how good they really are.” The sun rose this morning at 9:30 o’clock but never really left the horizon. Huge and red and solemn, it rolled like a wheel along the Barrier edge … gradually sinking past it until nothing was left but a blood-red incandescence … Read. View high resolution

theamericanscholar:

The Daily Scholar: Alone and Freezing Cold

Avid armchair traveler Priscilla Long divulges her latest exploits on the Antarctic ice shelf with explorer Richard Byrd. Byrd sojourned to the ice shelf “to taste peace and quiet and solitude long enough to find out how good they really are.”

The sun rose this morning at 9:30 o’clock but never really left the horizon. Huge and red and solemn, it rolled like a wheel along the Barrier edge … gradually sinking past it until nothing was left but a blood-red incandescence …

Read.

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