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The Mail on Sunday (UK)
A wonderfully vivid sense of the Sisyphean toil, the inhuman conditions, the endless expanses of ice and time, and the unremitting cold.The Lost Men can take its place alongside the best of the tales of extraordinary feats of icy exploration.Antarctic trek, the Ross Sea party became stranded when its ship tore free of her moorings and disappeared in a gale.Lewis's narrative doesn't focus solely on heroics.Men wanted for hazardous journey.Honour and recognition in case of success.Lewis delves into the harrowing details of their ordeal.After an hour of marching in agonizing lockstep, they had crept just a hundred yards.The Ross Sea Party lost three.Their saga, long a footnote in the history of Antarctica, has finally, and rightly, been rescued from oblivion.Lewis, a historian, located the diaries and logs of 16 survivors.An exhaustively researched and brilliantly crafted addition to the growing library of popular polar scholarship.Ross Sea Party deserves to be told and retold.Lewis's volume on the expedition...McElrea and Harrowfield produced a meticulous book that was the fruit of decades of research.Particularly impressive is the detailed attention to current medical opinion on the men's diseases and deficiencies, as well as to topics as diverse as the height of waves in the Southern Ocean and the design of sledges.Geographical, Book of the Month, November 2006
Comprehensive and impeccable...Read it because: Despite the incomprehensible suffering, deprivation and death it relates, this is a thoroughly enjoyable reading experience.Lewis has written a masterful book.Lewis presents a masterly account with unobtrusive research ...Its importance as a commentary on the strengths and frailties of human nature is perhaps as great, if not greater, than the mere story of yet another tragic polar expedition.To download more WordPress Themes, please visit www.Top artists ranked by popularity.Top artists ranked by popularity.
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