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Page 58 text:
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'K in Wyre szlent respect or those who ded not return the work of Mr. Gene Klebe, nationally known commercial illustrator. He was on special assignment with the Navy Art Cooperation and Liaison Committee during Operdtiwl Deepfreeze Sixty-One and kindly offered to help us im- prove our cruise book with the addition of his drawings. We are grateful to him for this assistance and pleased that he was able to stay aboard EDISTO for part of his visit to Antarctica. The excellent art work in this book is the result of
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Page 57 text:
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Page 59 text:
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- . . . there are days in the pack when the wind howls 'through the rigging and the ship is motionless because the ice damps the sea, snow drifts horizontally before the gale, and there is the feeling of being alone in a past white sepulcher. there is no such isolation elsewhere in the world. nothing within hundreds of miles but ice and sea and the lifving sea is shut off by the white plain that vanishes a few yards beyond the side of the ship. man is helpless. he can only wait, wait for the storm to end, for the ice to open, to let him mofve again as a sentinent thing toward his goal. . . - Russell Owen
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