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any books you can recommend on historical polar expeditions?

rjsw 5y ago
Try "The Worst Journey in the World" [1], there are eBook links from the wiki page. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World
- ncmncm 5y ago
  But skip the chapter about what Scott's wife was doing in his absence. The evidence suggests it is all fabrication. Around the same time period as Scott's crew were dying of scurvy, Japanese naval crews were dropping like flies from malnutrition for insisting on eating white rice and nothing but. And pellagra gripped the American south.
Bayart 5y ago
Although it's a fictional novel, I really like The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.
troyvit 5y ago
Another fiction is The Terror: https://www.librarything.com/work/1499548 https://www.librarything.com/work/1499548
- bduerst 5y ago
  Season 1 of The Terror TV show is fairly faithful to the book too. It's a pretty fascinating read.
  - EdwardDiego 5y ago
    That was great. Season 2 lost me a bit, but Season 1 was top notch. And not just because I decided I love Jared Harris in everything after seeing him in The Expanse as a leader of an OPA faction, and then seeing him in Chernobyl.
  - earleybird 5y ago
    The history on the ship itself is also quite interesting.[0] A repurposed bomb ship from the war of 1812, just to feature one aspect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813)
EdwardDiego 5y ago
I've just purchased Ranulph Fiennes' biography of Shackleton and definitely recommend that one, also I really enjoyed Endurance by Alfred Lansing, also about Shackleton's expedition. Fiennes' also wrote a good book about Amundsen and Scott, Race to the Pole. I've heard good things about "Mawson's Will" by Lennard Bickel. (I tend to focus on Antarctica due to its proximity and the historical connections to Antarctic exploration in my area)

rjsw 5y ago

Try "The Worst Journey in the World" [1], there are eBook links from the wiki page. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worst_Journey_in_the_World

ncmncm 5y ago
But skip the chapter about what Scott's wife was doing in his absence. The evidence suggests it is all fabrication. Around the same time period as Scott's crew were dying of scurvy, Japanese naval crews were dropping like flies from malnutrition for insisting on eating white rice and nothing but. And pellagra gripped the American south.

Bayart 5y ago

Although it's a fictional novel, I really like The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.

troyvit 5y ago

Another fiction is The Terror: https://www.librarything.com/work/1499548 https://www.librarything.com/work/1499548

bduerst 5y ago
Season 1 of The Terror TV show is fairly faithful to the book too. It's a pretty fascinating read.
- EdwardDiego 5y ago
  That was great. Season 2 lost me a bit, but Season 1 was top notch. And not just because I decided I love Jared Harris in everything after seeing him in The Expanse as a leader of an OPA faction, and then seeing him in Chernobyl.
- earleybird 5y ago
  The history on the ship itself is also quite interesting.[0] A repurposed bomb ship from the war of 1812, just to feature one aspect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Terror_(1813)

EdwardDiego 5y ago

I've just purchased Ranulph Fiennes' biography of Shackleton and definitely recommend that one, also I really enjoyed Endurance by Alfred Lansing, also about Shackleton's expedition. Fiennes' also wrote a good book about Amundsen and Scott, Race to the Pole. I've heard good things about "Mawson's Will" by Lennard Bickel. (I tend to focus on Antarctica due to its proximity and the historical connections to Antarctic exploration in my area)