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The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
by Alec Wilkinson
by Alec Wilkinson
Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides's review
bookshelves: explorers, history
Apr 17, 12
bookshelves: explorers, history
Read from April 15 to 17, 2012
Not bad. Citations are a little meager, and it feels like the book was padded out with stories of other polar explorations, because perhaps there wasn't enough material about this one. (But at the same time there wasn't enough material to make it a full-contest history of arctic exploration.) Not a bad read at first, but depressing by the end, when it was clear that they wouldn't be coming back.
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Quotes Snail in Danger (Sid) Liked
“One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.”
― Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
― Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
“Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.”
― Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
― Alec Wilkinson, The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration
Reading Progress
| 04/15/2012 | page 31 |
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12.0% | "Hmm. Bibliography but no index and no specific sourcing in endnotes." |
| 04/17/2012 | page 177 |
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69.0% | "In case anyone is wondering ... the Arctic is dangerous. Don't go there unless you are really prepared and know what to expect, and being one of the first people to try it is a bad plan. Also, reading about all the people who tried to find the pole and failed is quite depressing." |
