![]() ![]() By almost super-human effort he twice rescued companions, earning the undying gratitude of Scott's second in command Teddy Evans. ![]() more s and scientists on all three trips. Review 2: Tom Crean joined Scott's first Polar expedition almost by chance, but went on to become a stalwart of three Antarctic expiditions, two with Scott and one with Shackleton.An Able Seaman on his first expedition, Tom Crean won the admiration of his messmates, officer. A slightly dubious chapter that proclaims Scott would have survived if he had chosen Crean aside, this is an excellent book and an impressive addition to the literature of polar exploration. Michael Smith has made the most of the limited resources available, Crean unusually for the period never kept a diary, to write a compelling page-turner that fully gives justice to Annascaul man. Review 1: Crean was an incredible explorer and any book that lists his exploits can scarcely fail but to be impressive. ![]()
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It begins just where I, too, if I were granted a second lease of life, would start to gather up the disjecta membra of my own writings, to sift out all those “beginnings without continuations” and knead them into a whole.Īs I read through the manuscript of this book it became clear to me how great are the disadvantages of pioneer work: one stumbles through unknown regions one is led astray by analogies, forever losing the Ariadne thread one is overwhelmed by new impressions and new possibilities, and the worst disadvantage of all is that the pioneer only knows afterwards what he should have known before. ![]() ![]() The author has requested me to preface his book with a few words of introduction, and to this I accede all the more readily because I found his work more than usually welcome. ![]() ![]() So fast-paced that it must be swallowed whole, for setting it aside is as dangerous as jumping from a speeding motorcycle.' El Pais on Papi - `Rita Indiana is unclassifiable. 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