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Title: What the Ice Gets : Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1916 by Melinda Mueller, Gary Holthaus ISBN: 0-9677021-1-9 Publisher: Van West & Co. Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Overwhelming story, finely crafted
Comment: The Shackleton story is amazing, but this accounting of it is stunningly thought through and executed. Read it over and over.
Rating: 5
Summary: A stanza may be worth ten thousand words of prose.
Comment: This is a case where the economy of a well-crafted poetic line accomplishes what might take a page of prose. The imagery and emotion evoked by this slim volume more than capture the beauty and desperation experienced by Shackleton and his company. No space is wasted on mundane logistical cataloging and diary-keeping. Instead the reader is in the grip of perilous nature from beginning to end. The final section sketching the fate of the men after their great adventure on the ice shows that miraculously overcoming one peril does not innoculate you against life's other afflictions.
Rating: 5
Summary: Shackleton Brought to Life
Comment: This epic poem brings Shackleton's attempt to reach the South Pole to life! Some of the chapters tell the story from the point of view of individual members of the expedition; some describe particular events. Each fact is documented. Its one thing to know that Shackleton and a part of the crew left the rest of the crew behind, and travelled 800 miles in a dory on a rescue mission. Mueller brings the situation to life, describing the plight of both the rescuers and the rescuees. And then, in a moving and haunting conclusion, she tells of some of the individual's lives after the voyage. In sum, its an adventurist's story, a naturalist's story, a poet's story. A book you will want to reread, read out loud, and give to your friends.
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Title: The Change Makers: From Carnegie to Gates, How the Great Entrepreneurs Transformed Ideas into Industries by Maury Klein ISBN: 0805069143 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: End of the Earth: Expeditions To South Georgia and Antarctica by Peter Matthiessen ISBN: 0792250591 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by ERIK LARSON ISBN: 0609608444 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title:Chicago (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B00005JLSE Publisher: Miramax Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.49 |
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Title:Finding Nemo ASIN: B00005JM02 Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $20.99 |
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