We exchanged a few words the other day, but I didn't mention the book I'd write about (since you mentioned Shackleton's book I decided to bring something else.) Let me start with a quote that inspired me to be who I am today.

"A man needs to travel. By his own means, not by stories, images, books or TV. By his own, with his eyes and feet, to understand what he is. To some day plant his own trees and give them some value. To know the cold to enjoy the heat. To feel the distance and lack of shelter to be well under his own ceiling. A man needs to travel to places he doesn't know to break this arrogance that makes us see the world as we imagine it, and not simply as it is or may be. That makes us teachers and doctors of what we have never seen, when we should just be learners, and simply go see it." — Amyr Klink

This quote is from Amyr Klink's first book, 100 days between sea and sky. This mad lad crosed the Atlantic on a rowing boat in 1987. Then, a series of other epic adventures followed (though he hates the word adventure).

I wrote a more in-depth post, if you don't mind me sharing it here.

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