You’re Getting Warmer

The ice pack may have extended to within 80 miles of Buenos Aires during the last Ice Age, but not in 1914 (“Firsthand Documentation of a Legendary Endurance Test,” by Kevin Thomas, Feb. 22).

Thomas’ review led me to blow the dust off my copy of Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance” (1959). Shackleton sailed from Buenos Aires to New South Georgia (close to 2,000 miles in my atlas), then southward quite a distance before becoming icebound. Also, iron men though they were, they didn’t row from Elephant Island to NSG, they sailed there, knowing that if they missed it, the next landfall would be South Africa (they’d be long dead by then).

BURTON KALLMAN

Torrance