Scott Cookman
Autore di Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition
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Author Scott Cookman was born in 1952. He wrote two outdoor adventure histories and wrote both cooking features and how-to advice articles for Field and Stream magazine. He died in 2007. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Scott Cookman
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- male
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Days of yarrr (1)
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- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 237
- Popolarità
- #95,614
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 8
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- 1
This book provided a fascinating look at the sheer logistics and complexity of planning and provisioning the Terror and the Erebus for the years' long voyages. Its descriptions of the conditions under which the food was processed rivals those in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
"The provisioner, Goldner certainly knew stinking meat from fresh, whole vegetables from peelings, and bone, animal hair, mold and rat droppings when he saw them. Even if he did not venture out of his tiny paper-filled office, he could hardly have avoided smelling them. But to Goldner, it looked and smelled like money. What he couldn't see or smell was the fact that it was a bacterial and viral Chernobyl approaching meltdown."
Although, other than its demonization of the provisioner Goldner, the book, as nonfiction, is not generally character-driven, it does portray Franklin as an incompetent, over-the-hill commander, and sypathetically portrays Crozier as the experienced and able arctic explorer who was passed over for command for class reasons. A very interesting read.… (altro)