It's a Good Problem.

I think I have a problem.


The problem here is that my bookcase is too narrow.

(I even have one volume out on loan right now ...)

OHYAT: Leaving the Hut

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY, at 4 p.m., the men of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910 left for good the building which had been their base, home, and fragment of civilisation for the last two years.

It is quite wonderful now to be travelling a day's journey in an hour: we went to Cape Royds in about that time and took off geological and zoological specimens. I should like to sit up and sketch all these views, which would have meant long travelling without the ship, but I feel very tired. The mail is almost too good for words. Now, with the latest waltz on the gramophone, beer for dinner and apples and fresh vegetables to eat, life is more bearable than it has been for many a long weary week and month. I leave Cape Evans with no regret: I never want to see the place again. The pleasant memories are all swallowed up in the bad ones.

– Apsley Cherry-Garrard's diary

The hut is, now, more or less exactly as they left it one hundred years ago, thanks to its isolation, deep-freeze, and the Antarctic Heritage Trust. And thanks to the magic and seemingly endless financial resources of Google, you can have a poke around in it, yourself:

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And you can hear from people who've been there themselves, too, thanks to the Natural History Museum putting their in-exhibit videos online.