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Title: Silas: The Antarctic Diaries of Charles S. Wright by Colin Bull, Pat F. Wright ISBN: 0-8142-0548-8 Publisher: Ohio State University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $67.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent first-person narrative by early polar explorer
Comment: This book provides an excellent, (annotated) first-person narrative by an early polar explorer. The annotation provides just enough supplementary material to provide context and clarification for the modern reader, without interrupting Charles Wright's voice. The illustrations are really marvelous.

Having read the book about five years ago, I don't remember a great deal of detail, but one moment stands out: Wright describes, off-handedly, waking up in a sleeping bag soaked by a puddle of ice that melted as he slept on it. Anyone who has spent the night in a drenched, cold sleeping bag knows how hard a person you have to be to take such a thing as a matter of course.

(I should mention that I am the son of the editor of this book, so my views are perhaps not entirely unbiased.)