Game 19, Round 3, lines
OK. Here are the Nordic and efficient first lines to choose from for Roald Amundsen's The South Pole:
1 - I must begin by acknowledging the debt that I and my expedition owe to Fridtjof Nansen.
2 - When planning started, I knew we should learn best from those who had gone before us.
3 - Nowhere on God's Earth is the truth of the adage that a dog is man's best friend more true than on the barren waste that is the southernmost continent.
4 - I try to be a modest man, but when Ernest Shackleton’s mission to the South Pole failed, I could not stop the voice inside of me whispering that I could have done better.
5 - I do not know when I first conceived the idea of making an expedition to the South Pole.
6 - Here I am, sitting in the shade of palms, surrounded by the most
wonderful vegetation, enjoying the most magnificent fruits, and writing the history of the South Pole.
7 - Even at the worst of times I was never truly disheartened; for I had never truly believed it could be done.
8 - It was upon the 14th June, 1910 that I read of the outcome of the Jorgensen parties expedition to Sheaf Point on the Antarctic continent.
Poll Game 19, Round 3, lines
Deadline for votes will be Wednesday 22nd 5 pm BST.
1 - I must begin by acknowledging the debt that I and my expedition owe to Fridtjof Nansen.
2 - When planning started, I knew we should learn best from those who had gone before us.
3 - Nowhere on God's Earth is the truth of the adage that a dog is man's best friend more true than on the barren waste that is the southernmost continent.
4 - I try to be a modest man, but when Ernest Shackleton’s mission to the South Pole failed, I could not stop the voice inside of me whispering that I could have done better.
5 - I do not know when I first conceived the idea of making an expedition to the South Pole.
6 - Here I am, sitting in the shade of palms, surrounded by the most
wonderful vegetation, enjoying the most magnificent fruits, and writing the history of the South Pole.
7 - Even at the worst of times I was never truly disheartened; for I had never truly believed it could be done.
8 - It was upon the 14th June, 1910 that I read of the outcome of the Jorgensen parties expedition to Sheaf Point on the Antarctic continent.
Poll Game 19, Round 3, lines
Deadline for votes will be Wednesday 22nd 5 pm BST.