{"product_id":"south-of-silence-1","title":"South of Silence","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eMost people imagine the cold is the hardest part of living at the South Pole. It is not. The cold is predictable. It is the silence that catches you off guard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFor nearly three years, Dale Herschlag lived at the South Pole, becoming one of fewer than 120 people in history to complete back-to-back winter seasons in total darkness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e U.S. Air Force meteorologist trained to forecast the world’s most violent weather, he arrived prepared for the cold. What he was not prepared for was the psychological weight that emerges when the horizon disappears, and the stillness refuses to let you look away.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eIn South of Silence, Herschlag takes readers beyond the industrial grit of McMurdo Station and into the heart of the most isolated environment on Earth―the South Pole.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFrom the extremes of the 300 Club―a midwinter test of exposure and endurance―to the unseen toll of prolonged isolation, this memoir explores what happens when survival becomes routine and reflection becomes unavoidable. It is a story of endurance, identity, and the quiet ways  extreme environments reveal who we are when there is nowhere left to hide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e At the South Pole, the sun disappears for months at a time, and there is no horizon to follow. For nearly three years, Dale Herschlag lived and worked there, including two consecutive Antarctic winters when darkness was complete and inescapable.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAs a U.S. Air Force meteorologist, Herschlag was trained to analyze extreme weather and make decisions under pressure. The cold was familiar. The isolation was not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAt the Pole, the data eventually repeats, and the work shifts from interpretation to resilience. Life there demanded a different kind of endurance, shaped by repetition and confinement.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: -4px 0px 14px; color: #5e6e82; font-family: \" open sans blinkmacsystemfont ui roboto neue arial sans-serif color emoji symbol rgba font-size:=\"\" background-color:=\"\" padding:=\"\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eSouth of Silence is a memoir about what prolonged isolation does to the mind, and what it takes to remain grounded when the external world narrows to almost nothing. It follows the slow internal shifts that emerge when silence stops fading into the background and begins to press inward\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reardon Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":66692863164720,"sku":"9781901037401","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/south-of-silence-1","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}