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Sep 01, 2015 09:41AM
Bought this yesterday and I can't wait to dig in. I think I'm going to be a survival story junkie thanks to this group!
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Really liking this book! The action starts right away. I love that some of the men are familiar faces. Hurley's photographs are stunning, again. I can't believe these guys wanted to go back a second(or third) time to Antarctica!
Shackleton is definitely worship worthy. I laughed when he found the stowaway and told him he would be the first one eaten, if it came down to that.
Oh man, can these poor men get a break? Please? I know everyone is alive but, even as a reader in my comfy bed, I can't take the constant cold and wet. I get a weird feeling when I think about wet wool. Oh, and the slime inside the sleeping bags!! Gawd! And the descriptions of their poor feet and hands. Can you imagine? How did they do it? How on earth are they still alive? Can people really barely sleep, eat nothing but warm powdered milk, be wet, be frozen, and row for 12+ hours a day? Unreal.
Randolph wrote: "Kirstin wrote: "Oh man, can these poor men get a break? Please? I know everyone is alive but, even as a reader in my comfy bed, I can't take the constant cold and wet. I get a weird feeling when ..."
I am completely surprised that no one seems to have given up or gone mad. I am also totally amazed that, so far, only some toes have been lost to frostbite.
There is a movie being made about this book. It was supposed to come out in November, the 100th anniversary of the Endurance sinking. It says 'In production' on Imbd.
Quirkyreader wrote: "What would have been the icing on the cake ,if Lansing had written a postscript about what happened to all the members of the expedition."There is a lot of information out there on most of the men. They seem to have joined the army/navy and fought in both WW1 and WW2 and quite a few signed on with Shackleton for the next Antarctic expedition in 1921.
Thanks, QR! :)"Shackleton's 800-mile journey in a tiny boat, the James Caird, back to South Georgia is the stuff of legend, as is his insane descent down a glacier, wearing the remains of a dinner suit."
So badass!
