Richard E. Byrd Quote

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also is to the good. For that experience resolved proportions and relationships for me as nothing else could have done; and it is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.


Ch. 1 - Alone (1938)


What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also...

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also...

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also...

What I had not counted on was discovering how closely a man could come to dying and still not die, or want to die. That, too, was mine; and it also...