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The Adventures of Shackleton
By christmas, it's summer in anartica and the sun barely dips below the horizon before it rises again. The freezing air is filled with tiny, delicate crystals that float to the ground in a twinkling cascade. They watch as whales, as long as their ship thrust their snouts above the water and flink their tails between the ice floes. On y night, they pass close to a berg so splendid they give it a name, the rampart. As they pass close, they can see the base dropping deep into the opera blue sea at least a thousand feet down. One of the crew says quietly, i never knew how much life is out there. I