Erebus: The Story of a Ship

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Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. It's a well presented and detailed serious narrative history, done something of a disservice by the over-promising blurbs that claim it's full of zizz and laughs. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

e gli intrepidi equipaggi, sfidando venti gelidi, ghiaccio e iceberg immensi, portano ad importanti scoperte nel campo geografico, del magnetismo terrestre, della zoologia e della botanica. The book I think would have benefitted by a more in depth look at that fateful expedition as well the new discovery of both shipwrecks. E infatti, nel viaggio verso nord al comando di Sir John Franklin (quello che si mangiò gli scarponi), le due navi scompaiono. Brings energy, wit and humanity to a story that has never ceased to tantalise people since the 1840s.The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the ‘Great Southern Barrier’; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus’s final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist – when he wasn’t shooting the local wildlife dead. On its way south, the three-masted Erebus had stopped off at Tasmania, then Van Diemen’s Land, and met the useless Lt Governor John Franklin. His books include accounts of his journeys, novels ( Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth ) and several volumes of diaries.

The book covers not only its loss in the Arctic, but its Antarctic exploration, and its construction in Milford Haven. If you're looking for Franklin information, I recommend Russell Potter's Finding Franklin; Palin's Erebus is a thorough account of Erebus, and I was excited to read this to learn of her lesser-known voyage with James Clark Ross. Vor allem auf die letzte, tragische Reise der Erebus mit dem Ziel der Entdeckung der Nordwestpassage war ich gespannt. Palin has an engaging chatty style which more often reads like travelogue rather than history; and having visited many of the locales himself, is great at conflating descriptions of the original voyages with his own impressions.In 1831, he became a national hero when he reached the North Magnetic Pole by sled – and nearly died in the process. Despite a lifetime interest in history and travel, I am ashamed to confess that until I read this book neither the names of the ships nor the names of their famous crew were known to me. When Hooker was appointed to the crew of Erebus, he was a 22-year-old botanist fresh out of the University of Glasgow. I had already decided I'd probably get the book, although I was pretty familiar with the Franklin story and the repeated attempts on the North West Passage, have several books on the topic and a forebear who commanded an early Arctic Naval expedition in which Franklin commanded the smaller vessel (shamefully not mentioned by M.

Palin includes historical accounts of Erebus’s time in these places, as well as his impressions of the landscape as it looks currently, and Erebus’s long-standing legacies. Slightly Foxed brings back forgotten voices through its Slightly Foxed and Plain Foxed Editions, a series of beautifully produced little pocket hardback reissues of classic memoirs, all of them absorbing and highly individual.

We see their plans, we then sail with the crews and suffer with them as the ships explore and move through the Antarctic. Overall, a fine read; one that made me glad to be indoors as the snow falls and the wind howls outside my walls. When I made a journey to the Antarctic Peninsula in 2014 the sight of a single whale was enough to bring everyone out on deck, reaching for cameras and binoculars. Of course, it's not possible to know the whole truth, as no one survived (I'm pretty sure that's not a spoiler! So berichtet uns Palin ausführlich von den Reisen der beiden Schiffe, inklusive ausführlicher Charakterisierungen der jeweiligen Kapitäne und Offiziere.