any books you can recommend on historical polar expeditions?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World
Around the same time period as Scott's crew were dying of scurvy, Japanese naval crews were dropping like flies from malnutrition for insisting on eating white rice and nothing but. And pellagra gripped the American south.
Fiennes' also wrote a good book about Amundsen and Scott, Race to the Pole.
I've heard good things about "Mawson's Will" by Lennard Bickel.
(I tend to focus on Antarctica due to its proximity and the historical connections to Antarctic exploration in my area)