📚: The Last Viking, Stephen Bown: Quotes: Meta activities
Interesting observation:
Nansen, who had dealt with the publicity from his own past adventures, helped Amundsen negotiate international newspaper rights to his story. It was a steep learning curve for Amundsen, who had never considered these activities —putting a public face on the expedition, generating advance interest, securing financial support and publication rights and paying creditors afterwards— to be part of his job as expedition leader, but he quickly realized that for a privately funded individual they were just as important as succeeding at the expedition itself.
I think it’s interesting because it shows the importance of the meta aspects.