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I have recently finished reading South by Ernest Shackleton - my most favourite historical figure ever. I am very sad to have finished it, really. It kept me cheerful company on chill early morning trains and during dreary, lonely lunch breaks at work. As the last page approached I realised that I hadn't satisfied my current Antarctic craving in ( Read more... )

I have a little crush on Lee Ingleby, as some of you know, and I was looking at him in imdb, as I often do, and GASP!  He's in a brand new BBC production of The Worst Journey in the World!!!  He plays Birdie Bowers!

Oh my goodness, I hope this will come on American TV.  I'm reading the book right now.  (Yes, still.  I've been reading it on and off ( Read more... )

You may all be well ahead of me (or you may already own all of them), but I was particularly excited to find a few Antarctic books on the Project Gutenberg site, including Shackleton's "South" and - hurrah - Mawson's "Home of the Blizzard" (yaymawson). Just type antarctica in the Subject box :)

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I met her!  It was fun!  I pulled up in the driveway and she came outside to greet me.  She brought me inside and said offhand, leading me into the room, "There are some Hurley photographs on the wall there, reproductions - and there are some drawings by Walter How... and there's a picture of my father...  Take a seat!"  While I was saying "Oh wow ( Read more... )

Eeek!  Tomorrow I'm going to meet William Bakewell's daughter - and probably granddaughter, and maybe some great-grandchildren, since I'm going to their house!  I'm really nervous!  But excited too!  But nervous!  I don't know why!  It's just... what will I say?  What will I do ( Read more... )

I'm going to order this book, CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION IN THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS.  Unfortunately, the shipping costs more than the book, and it comes from Norway.  And I somehow have to figure out how to pay in Norway Kroner without credit card, hmm...  But never mind that.

It turns out that the shipping is more expensive than the ( Read more... )

Go see the Sucks to be you! list of True Adventurer's books.

I especially like his description of Scott.

( an idea for a Shackleton pop-up book... )