Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica | 
pickSoft pick for this YA nonfiction. Parallel tales of the Amundsen/Scott expeditions to the South Pole and the 2018 Rudd/O‘Brady race to complete the first solo/unaided/unsupported crossing of the Antarctic landmass (there‘s a section at the end on the controversy over their claims and the verbiage used). I can‘t imagine why anyone would want to go through what they did, so that part was hard to understand. I was looking more for the historical 👇🏻
ravenlee part, which was hard enough to read. I didn‘t know what happened to Scott and his men, or how Amundsen turned his life goals literally upside down to reach the South Pole. It was really hard to read about what the explorers did to their animals, and to justify it (especially in Amundsen‘s case, for whom it was entirely a feat with no scientific component to the expedition). Informative but with some factual uncertainties. 👇🏻 2y
ravenlee You know how when you identify an error in a NF book, and it makes you wonder how many other errors there are that you don‘t recognize, and you question the veracity of the whole thing? This one came with a photo caption on one page and text on the literal next identifying Hobart as located in both Australia and New Zealand. Minor, yes, but it calls things into question all the same. 2y
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