Word: shackletonian
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...Lincoln went for it. These 19th century naval disasters are satisfying largely in direct proportion to the suffering of the protagonists, and Riley's agonies are of truly Shackletonian proportions. But there's richness in the narrative too. Skeletons on the Zahara (the Z is a 19th century spelling) is more than a horror story. It's a tale about a man who discovers his own courage in the face of catastrophe, and an instructive fable about cultural contact: Americans and Arabs searching for firm common ground in a wasteland of shifting sands. --By Lev Grossman
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