...and would like more suggestions for her books (there's a lot of them), and maybe one or two on Scott - (knowing I have already read Endurance and Shackleton).
Oh, and any other fictionalization of arctic or otherwise difficult explorations. Thanks!
― aimurchie, Monday, 30 June 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)
All of Bainbridge is pretty great, but if 'The Birthday Boys' is your especial boat, try 'Master Georgie' (about the Crimean War), 'Every Man for Himself' (about the Titanic), and 'Young Adolf' (based on the fact that Hitler's half-brother lived in Liverpool, and an apocryphal story that the teenaged Adolf visited him there).
Have you read 'The Worst Journey in the World'? And also, there's a lovely illustrated version of Scott's journals edited and annotated by Bainbridge, with heaps of gorgeous Antarctic photography.
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― James Morrison, Monday, 30 June 2008 10:54 (seventeen years ago)
Also, for a somewhat surreal take on that sort of expedition, try Magnus Mill's 'Explorers of the New Century'.
― James Morrison, Monday, 30 June 2008 10:55 (seventeen years ago)
Also, you might find http://www.antarctic-circle.org/fauno.htm useful: it's a pretty comprehensive annotated list of fiction set in Antarctica, including lots of fictional travel/exploration stories.
I'll leave you alone now.
― James Morrison, Monday, 30 June 2008 11:31 (seventeen years ago)
Antarticana! Thank you James Morrison!
This should keep me busy for the hot month of July. For some reason the stories of these struggles are like mental air conditioning for me.
Was "Master Georgie" ever made into a movie or BBC drama? it seems to ring a bell.
― aimurchie, Monday, 30 June 2008 11:48 (seventeen years ago)
The Last Place on Earth by Roland Huntford--about Scott and Amundsen's race to the South Pole. easily the best of the Antarctic book's I've read, with Worst Journey a close second.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 30 June 2008 14:13 (seventeen years ago)
'Young Adolf' (based on the fact that Hitler's half-brother lived in Liverpool, and an apocryphal story that the teenaged Adolf visited him there).
I've always wondered, is this pre- or post- Grant Morrison's "The New Adventures of Adolf Hitler"?
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 15:14 (seventeen years ago)
It was published in 1978, so pre-Grant.
― James Morrison, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 22:51 (seventeen years ago)