You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 16.

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Now here's your host, Rachel Hart.

Hello friends, how are you?

What are you up to? What are you reading right now?

I will tell you I just finished a New Yorker article.

It was a truly strange article.

It was about the Victorian obsession with polar exploration.

If you're interested, I recommend googling it. It's kind of weird.

It's called polar expressed.

So if you don't get the magazine, you can read it online.

But it talks about the public fascination with exploration to the north and the south pole and how it was so widespread.

And in the consciousness of the general public during the Victorian age, that people were writing songs about it.

And they were attending polar themed dinner parties, which I don't know what that is, but I would like to attend one of those.

And that the literature of the time had a whole genre all about polar exploration and going to the north pole.

It's a totally strange article.

But anyway, I wanted to share it with you because when I was reading it, in the article, they were talking about Arthur Conan Doyle.

So if you don't know who that is, he's the author of the Sherlock Holmes series.

And they talk about how before he became a writer, when he was a young man, he actually served on a ship.

I think it was called Hope that sailed from Scotland to the Arctic.

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