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Marissa Grunes is a Boston-based literary scholar and science writer who has published on the arts and the environment in Atlas Obscura, Nautilus, The Conversation, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English Literature from Harvard University.
Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
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