I say this not to minimize the depth or the hardship of his experience (it sounds like a nightmare) but more in amazement at all the compressed experiences he had and the folder for stories he amassed during that one year. Certain years in life flash by (or they seem that way to me) and others are formative and seem to last forever. Clearly this was the latter for him.
Maybe publish a chapter online and ask feedback and encouragement (since there are fewer magazines now)?
I would be interested to hear it
Beautiful pictures and an interesting text.
I can't remember which book it was but the comedic/tragic depiction of an unexperienced sister and two brothers overloading a sled, unwilling to give up useless comforts, so much so that the dogs couldn't move the sled, stuck in my mind.
That's from The Call of the Wild.
Yup. Everything on screen will be fake. No majesty. No detail. No grit. Nothing authentic. No presence. It will look like a marvel movie, a clean and sanitized version of "wilderness". I bet they will even add fake consensation so we know when a the scene is supposed to be "cold". Because the turbulance of a character's breath hitting a biting arctic wind and freezing to thier mask is so easy to model accurately in post.
Want to see a real yukon movie?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Cry_Wolf_(film)
"He also found the process difficult. "During much of the two-year shooting schedule in Canada's Yukon and in Nome, Alaska, I was the only actor present. It was the loneliest film I've ever worked on," Smith said."
THAT is what the real north is like.
> “Even his popular classics are enriched with multilevel meanings beneath the action-packed surface,” Labor says. “Jack was gifted with what Jung called ‘primordial vision,’ which unconsciously connects the author to universal myths and archetypes.
This right here is why Jack London is one of my favourite authors. The two-volume set published in the "Library of America" series is a must have for any aficionado. Not only does it have his novels and short stories but it also has his social writings which any American will do well to read today.
Novels and Stories : https://www.loa.org/books/99-novels-and-stories/
Novels and Social Writings : https://www.loa.org/books/100-novels-and-social-writings/
Reading his works, it is apparent that he was highly intelligent and really read and thought about everything in a very practical "here is how it is applicable to real life" manner. It is an object lesson on how mere schooling should not define you but what you make of yourself with what you study, learn and practice.
Several areas of the ocean floor are covered with valuable polymetallic nodules [1] which are way more accessible than anything in space, yet this has not led to the equivalent of a gold rush.
Gold is way too cheap (and much easier to get on earth, even if the current mines are exhausted)
And in modern attention economy there is another extremely valuable resource to mine - attention of millions. At least initially the trips by IG/TikTok influencers (would be like Jack London posting TikToks as he goes instead of writing books later) will generate tremendous revenue paving the interplanetary ways for us, mere mortals.
>Gold is way too cheap (and much easier to get on earth, even if the current mines are exhausted)
With that logic Manilla Galeons wouldn't have happened :)
Edit: just looked up prices of iridium, rhodium - $6K-$10K/ounce. So just 10kg - $2M+ . Thus it looks like there is a lot of economic sense for asteroid mining once we get to cheaply launch into LEO 100+ ton items like nuclear powered ships.
(even filtering sea water for it here on earth sounds a lot cheaper)
Optimistically though I think by that time ticket to Moon on SpaceX cattle class will be $100K.
(For me exploring space and working towards becoming a multi planet species is justification enough)
Some very rare elements or tritium maybe, but this is is a big maybe.
Nobody these days surprised that producing stuff in China and delivering it 10000km is cheaper than producing locally. The same thing will be with mining as the cost structure - absence of environmental and political costs in particular and much cheaper energy (solar and nuclear) - is much better in the space than on earth.