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Title: End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0-7922-5059-1 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Unexepectly good!
Comment: After reading End of the Earth, by Peter Matthiessen I felt a lot more informed about the continent that you exist, but never really is talked about. Other then that it's a continent made up of water that's been frozen for thousands of years, you really don't know much about. He took a place on earth where most wouldn't dare to venture to once, let alone twice and wrote about it. He gave light to a place where it might have seemed dismal and dreary and gave it life. He makes the reader want to keep learning more about this mysterious place even after the book is all finished and done with. He is very detail in his description and makes sure you understand what's going on, and the feeling he felt while there. From beginning to end, you keep asking yourself why would Matthiessen choose to go on not one, but two different and separate voyages to Antarctica, one of the coldest and dismal places in the world. I would have never thought a book about Antarctica could be so detailed and so interesting. If you like learning about new things, and love nature, this is a good book for you!
Rating: 4
Summary: What a tour guide!
Comment: After reading Shackleton's "South" I thought I knew a lot about Antarctica, but this book revealed how much I didn't know - the forces at work behind the obstacles Shackleton and other adventurers faced in the quest for the pole, and a greater understanding of the wildlife they encountered. I learned that we cannot understand how the Earth works without understanding how the Antarctic region works - and Matthiessen explains its global reach. The touring format is a wonderful way to learn about the history and science of this region and Matthiessen is a wonderful guide (his poetic prose is Melville-esque). This is my first book by Matthiessen, and I will be sure to read many more.
Rating: 2
Summary: Appalling!
Comment: I recently returned from South Georgia/Antarctica and immediatly ordered Peter Matthiessen's book. In his very first sentence is an error so great (Punta Arenas,located in Argentina) that I suddenly found myself searching for further errors. YES--I found them and I'm only on page 31!! Still--I will finish the book and probably find some enjoyment from it, if only that I want deeper conversation about a wilderness I came to love.
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Title: Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe by Laurence Bergreen ISBN: 0066211735 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, Robert Bateman ISBN: 0865476578 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander ISBN: 067003133X Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen, Edward Hoagland ISBN: 0140255087 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0140255079 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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