Ron Jones

An interesting story about one of Admiral Birds exploits on the south pole.

Revisado: 02-23-25

A story that dripped with gushing praise of Admiral Richard Bird, a US admiral who led to the establishment of an early scientific base on the outskirts of Antarctica. While the historic cactus in this book are factual, it dripped with so much praise for this man that I soon began to not believe it. No one is as god like and perfect as this man is painted as. Bird was a controversial man, many of his firsts have been shown to be fabrications. this book says nothing about them. there are far better accounts of this interesting, and late comment, explorer.

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compelling.

Revisado: 09-16-24

the story keep moving with many surprises and twists. I liked that the science was correct with a few minor liberties to keep the story moving, but Craig never has to resort to supernatural magic, he is s much better and clever writer than to have to resort to magic to bail his characters out. Everything is believable. He does tend to repeat things a bit too much, but its a minor complaint from a big fan. I'm anxious to see how they keep the bad guys from blowing up the entire planet, at least till I finish the series.

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I felt like I was on each expedition.

Revisado: 07-07-24

the entry for each day was written in a casual, easy to read style. else many details of the days events and frequent musings about the beauty of the landscape. I felt as if I was a personal friend of both explorers. a real treat to read the actual journal and not a rewritten summary. what a heartbreakimg read of the last weeks of Scott's. it is hard to read the words of a man knowing he and his companions are sure to die.
the epilog is very informative and insightful.

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fair telling of an amazing life

Revisado: 06-29-24

performance was not very good. it was nearly monotone. it went from totally new topics as if it was just another word in a sentence. No pausing or changing of pace for different things in the story. A text to speech program would have more personality in the reading. It was very difficult to follow. I had to listen to each word instead of following the story. like listening to a musical performance by having to carefully pick out every single note.
The book itself was not very clear on many topics. The only way I knew the significance of even where the story line was is because I'm fairly familiar with polar exploration. Read this book as your second book about polar explorers.

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easy fun read

Revisado: 06-18-24

slow to get started but lots of twists and turns about midway through. a good story, not great fiction, but a good read for young people exploring science fiction.

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compelling

Revisado: 06-16-24

Absolutely great book. Both high adventure and lots of interesting details about the early days of sail. This was a sort of Mutiny on the Wager, plus lots and lots of background informaiont. Clearly, Grann loves his work and it shows. He is a craftsman.

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amazingly well developed new world

Revisado: 02-06-24

The readimg was very boring and monotone with no inflection in his voice. For instance, it was hard to follow back and forth dialog with every voice being presented in the same monotone speech. He would begin each new scene in the story as a continuous monotone sentence with no voice inflection or pause to indicate the characters were in a new time and surrounding. I will avoid audio books read by him.

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review of many early expeditions

Revisado: 01-07-24

this was a rapid fire review of many of the early expeditions to find the NW passage, however it was more of a cronoligy of who and when and lacked giving me a feeling that I knew the various characters, they were simply names and dates. if I was not already very familiar with the history of and familiar with many of the expeditions, I could not have finished the book. for me, it is a nice reference for a cronoligy, but not good for telling a compelling story.

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be careful

Revisado: 12-10-22

Once you start this, you won't be able to put it down. Not only is it so well written that it captivates you, the story and social statement is powerful. An excellent book in every way.

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Very difficult to follow. rambles on and on.

Revisado: 09-15-22

don't read this unless you already know a great deal about Vincent and art history. the book is extremely hard to flow. if you can follow it, you already know what it is saying. With much agony, I made it through the book but learned very little.

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