Select the correct answer.
Read the excerpt. Which idea about the place of the explorers on nature's frontier does the diary entry best support?
One man wrote in his diary: "It's a hard, rough, jolly life, this marching and camping; no washing of self or dishes, no unaressing, no changing of clothes. We have our food anyhow, and always [soaked] with blubber-smoke; sleeping almost on the bare snow and working as hard as the human physique is capable of doing on a minimum of food."
O A. The expedition's men prefer an unpleasant place on nature's frontier to the comforts of city life.
• B. The expedition's men can tame and adapt nature's frontier to find a place in it.
• C. The expedition's men must earn their place on nature's frontier through effort and endurance.
O D.
The expedition's men fear that they have no place on nature's frontier and should leave.