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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. 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. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarcticas Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller.… (meer)
Een beschrijving van de 2 belangrijkste reizen die het schip Erebus heeft gemaakt, eerst door het zuidpool gebied en daarna de laatste reis naar de noordpool. Michael palin geeft een goed leesbare beschrijving, maar het is te merken dat hij geen historicus is. Pas in de zoektocht naar de Erebus in de noordpool begint het verhaal wat vaart te krijgen en echt te boeien. Dat komt omdat daar het sentiment gaat opspelen. In die stukken is Palin op zijn best. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
And indeed, nothing is easier for a man who has, as the phrase goes, 'followed the sea' with reverence and affection, than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames. The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home, or to the battles of the sea... from the Golden Hind returning with her round flanks full of treasure... to the Erebus and Terror, bound on other conquests -- and that never returned.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
For Albert and Rose
Eerste woorden
Verhalen over de zee hebben me altijd gefascineerd.
Citaten
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
In Tasmania were many thousands of women and men who had been forcibly removed from their home country, because they were judged to be born, criminals, Marley, unsalvageable, incapable of rehabilitation
Erebus and Terror had achieved something remarkable. Under sail alone, the two ships had successfully negotiated, 134 miles of pack-ice and come out the other side
To this day, there is a pub by the river at Greenhithe, the Sir John Franklin, where you can have a pint of beer and steak and chips and stand at the spot where Franklin‘s family saw him for the last time
Laatste woorden
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
And one day, God willing, I'll come back to the north-west passage, this time with a scuba suit, to see my ship for myself. Tracing one warm line through a land, so wide and savage, and make a north west passage to the sea
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. 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. Vividly recounting the experiences of the men who first set foot on Antarcticas Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, beyond the reach of desperate rescue missions, Erebus is a wonderfully evocative account of a truly extraordinary adventure, brought to life by a master explorer and storyteller.
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In September 2014 the wreck of a sailing vessel was discovered at the bottom of the sea in the frozen wastes of the Canadian arctic. It was broken at the stern and covered in a woolly coat of underwater vegetation. Its whereabouts had been a mystery for over a century and a half. Its name was HMS Erebus.
Now Michael Palin – former Monty Python stalwart and much-loved television globetrotter – brings this extraordinary ship 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. He explores the intertwined careers of the men who shared its journeys: the dashing James Clark Ross who charted much of the "Great Southern Barrier' and oversaw some of the earliest scientific experiments to be conducted there; and the troubled John Franklin, who at the age of sixty and after a chequered career, commanded the ship on its final, disastrous expedition. And he vividly recounts the experiences of the men who first stepped ashore on Antarctica's Victoria Land, and those who, just a few years later, froze to death one by one in the Arctic ice, as rescue missions desperately tried to reach them.
The result is a wonderfully evocative account of one of the most extraordinary adventures of the nineteenth century, as reimagined by a master explorer and storyteller.
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