Endurance

Reflections on discovery and war

As I type this early on a Wednesday morning, I’ve only just learned that the famed polar expedition ship, Endurance, has at last been found, resting on the 10,000-foot deep floor of the Weddell Sea, 106 years after she sank. It strikes me as poignant that the story of Endurance surfaces at a time when the world is at war, just as it was when the ship an…