The Lost Men
If you haven't already read The Lost Men by Kelly Tyler Lewis, you should get it now because it's on deep discount on the barnes and noble website (USA). And it's such an excellent and gripping book, one of the best non-fiction books I've read. Plus it has a lot of new research that hasn't been presented before, and some great photographs. I wish I had someone to buy it for, but I already had a copy (that I bought at full price when it first came out - and it was well worth the money). I bought one for my mom. I don't know if she'll read it, but I'll try to make her, because it's too good a bargain to pass up!
See the excellent website about the book. If you aren't familiar with the book, it's about Shackleton's Ross Sea / Aurora party, the ones who are rather forgotten because of the amazing events surrounding the Endurance party on the opposite side of the continent. Both parties combined formed the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
ETA: I just saw that there are two glowing reviews and one snippy one on the bn website. Silly lady. This is what she says with her 3/5 stars:
A reporting of facts rather than a story
Barbara, Homemaker, 10/03/2006
“The Lost Men” is a book about the 1914 expedition to the Antarctic. I had thought it would be more of a historical fiction but found it was a report of the men’s diaries....
*eyeroll* Well duh. I hate it when they give something a bad rating just because it's not what they expected. If you'd read anything at all about the book beforehand, you would have seen that it was a historic non-fiction book, not a novel. (Someone gave a bad Netflix rating to my adored opera Billy Budd because, they complained, it wasn't the "original" with Peter Ustinov and Terrence Stamp. No, idiot, it's an opera. End rant.)
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