The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
An account of Scott's last expedition. Apsley was one of the group who travelled across antarctica to get a penguin egg.
The Worst Journey in the World - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
An account of Scott's last expedition. Apsley was one of the group who travelled across antarctica to get a penguin egg.
The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.
Would like to endorse The Wild Places and the Chris McDougall book as brilliant reads.
Macfarlane's first, Mountains of the Mind is also excellent.
Just finishing the David Pearce Red Riding books (as they have been rebadged), the last one is "1983". Bleak, brutal but somehow very compelling.
The only one who can tell you "You can't" is you. And you don't have to listen.
Thanks for the recommendations. Looks like some quality shizzle mixed up in there.
I've recently enjoyed A Voyage for Madmen, Peter Nicholls about the Golden Globe Race (first solo circumnavigation). An excellent tale of a group of obsessed, driven, very brave and highly resourceful men.
Got a holiday coming up and am taking a few with me:
Bonfire of the Vanities, Jude the Obscure, a few Le Carre books, plus I might just try and finish jodg's Rising '44
"The best shield is to accept the pain, then what can really destroy me?"
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I've bought this and will be reading it after my current book (Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds). I'll let you know what I thought in about 8 months' time - I'm not a very dedicated reader.
Terry and June is eventually shelved after 65 episodes
I'm reading 1977 at the moment, recaptures the era well, but horribly brutal in places.
Mountains of the Mind is a classic, how can such a young writer articulate such profound views about the hills?
Has anyone read 'Joss Naylor MBE Was Here?' It's fiendishly hard to get hold of. Is it any good?
Keep the recommendations coming
Smoggy
I read both those Macfarlane books, and to be honest struggled with them a bit: thought they were a bit overwritten and sort of weighed down by the intellectualizing, if that's a word.