The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. When then Prime Minister Stephen Harper made his announcement of the finding of the first ship, it made the headlines in both print and electronic media. Il comando della spedizione viene affidato a John Franklin, il quale, a seguito di una precedente, fallimentare spedizione, si era guadagnato il soprannome di “L’Uomo che si Mangiò gli Scarponi”.

When Hooker was appointed to the crew of Erebus, he was a 22-year-old botanist fresh out of the University of Glasgow. Magnifiche anche le fotografie in bianco e nero correlate,le mappe disegnate dagli ufficiali e i disegni dei bellissimi paesaggi artici. Michael Palin did such a great job telling the story of the ship Erebus and all those who rode it on its trip to the Antarctic and then on its failed quest to find the north west passage. His books include accounts of his journeys, novels ( Hemingway’s Chair and The Truth) and several volumes of diaries. Even so, I found value in having the whole story of this ship's lifespan laid out in this way, encapsulating as it does a particular slice of time during the Age of Discovery; a rare time of peace during which the British Navy refitted warships to explore the globe and name, measure, and collect all that they found out there.Palin] successfully reanimates the corpse, bringing Erebus back from the depths of time so her funnels once more blast smoke as she forges through new and wondrous seas. Poi i viaggi, impensabili per tempistiche, fatica, rischi pazzeschi in luoghi sconosciuti in stagioni durissime. Palin presents so many details of the individuals and the geography that the book is easy to read and highly informative. But his relationship with Sir John Franklin was less happy: indeed Crozier sometimes feigned illness to avoid having to dine with him.

Già avevo letto il bellissimissimo I ragazzi di Barrow di Fergus Fleming, che racconta dei tempi d'oro (e dell'isteria britannica) dell'esplorazione polare e della ricerca del passaggio a nord ovest.As my book Erebus The Story of a Ship is all about the sea, where better to film than amongst the beautiful buildings of the old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. It might be said it was James Cook who defined the Antarctic Region, and James Ross who discovered it’ wrote Captain Scott. It's a well presented and detailed serious narrative history, done something of a disservice by the over-promising blurbs that claim it's full of zizz and laughs.

Cheered on by a crowd of engineers, carpenters, blacksmiths, clerks and their families, the stout, broad-hulled warship they had been building for the past two years slides, stern first, down the slipway at Pembroke Dockyard. Many thanks to LibraryThing First Reviewers and Greystone Books for this advance copy in exchange for my review. Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to The Missionary and The Death of Stalin. I don't know if this is a book I will think back on and ponder, but it is a fascinating window to a time when The Unknown was a prominent character and those who set out to meet her did so at their own peril. I also liked the way he places the importance of the expedition in contemporary Canadian politics, bringing the story right up to date.pulls together very effectively much of the work that’s been done to establish the truth about Franklin’s fate. An anxious, pessimistic man by nature, he had dark forebodings about Erebus’s final, disastrous journey. In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time. A year later, the ships were led by John Franklin on the ill-fated attempt on the North West Passage. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Nobody will ever know whether it was the style of Franklin’s leadership that ultimately doomed his Arctic voyage. In September 2014, marine archaeologists discovered HMS Erebus, her snapped stern furred with algae, on the Arctic seabed. Michael Palin - Monty Python star and television globetrotter - brings the remarkable Erebus back to life, following it from its launch in 1826 to the epic voyages of discovery that led to glory in the Antarctic and to ultimate catastrophe in the Arctic. When one considers that both ships were square masted sailing ships and these voyages took place in the first half of the nineteenth century the scale of the undertakings becomes clear.

The ship was filled with fascinating people: the dashing and popular James Clark Ross, who charted much of the ‘Great Southern Barrier’; the troubled John Franklin, whose chequered career culminated in the Erebus’s final, disastrous expedition; and the eager Joseph Dalton Hooker, a brilliant naturalist – when he wasn’t shooting the local wildlife dead. It may be just the nistory from the logs and diaries, but Micheal Palin makes it exciting and harrowing as the gales blow and the storms and cold drip the boats a crew.