Kamakura wrote:
There is a book called 'The worst journey in the World' written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard who was on Scott's expedition to the Antarctic in 1911. He travelled for a month to Cape Crozier and collected the first Emperor Penguin egg...
Which reminds me, I recently read this fantastic book called "Antarctica" by Kim Stanley Robinson. It does a really cool job of mixing the historical stuff with fictional events happening in the "near future" (the above expedition is discussed in the book, and boy did it sound nasty). His series Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars is also awesome, hard science fiction.
Great author.
-bill
PS
we could be penguins
standing in the antarctic
we could be sloths
and be lethargic
I haven't read Antarctica yet, but the Color Mars books were ssooooooo good. KSR knows so much about everything. Each of his characters is really obsessed with a few things and since each chapter is sort of thirdperson, partial omniscient from a different character's point of view, you end up reading a lot about their obsessions. And whenever KSR discusses something I happen to be obsessed with, it all checks out PLUS he gives me something extra that I'd never thought about in that way before. I just sort of assume that he's that good at talking about all the things I'm not that familiar with as well.
Some people say reading these books is painful. But even they tend to agree that they're fun in retrospect. I think this is a book about badass scientists living on Mars and controling its fate despite the fact that they eventually become a ridiculously small minority. If that sounds like fun to you, read these books.
