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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing

1. Stranger in the Mirror
It‘s been hard coming to grips with how much I‘ve changed since getting pregnant and having The Wyrmling. Not just physically but emotionally and mentally as well. Although it‘s still a surprise when I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. My mental image of myself hasn‘t updated to the new outer look…

2. Tagged. Excellent book about an adventure I could never hope to survive, but loved reading about.

#Two4Tuesday

TheSpineView

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! Have a great day 😀 7h

LiteraryinLawrence I totally relate to that feeling. Not due to pregnancy, just aging/body changes. It‘s jarring sometimes, isn‘t it? Sending hugs! 6h

MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @LiteraryinLawrence Thank you, sending hugs back! 🥰 It really is. I know I have extra pounds hanging around but I‘m not really aware of it until I walk past the bathroom mirror to take a shower. It honestly doesn‘t really get me down unless I‘m having a bad day already. I knew I wasn‘t going to have the same body after carrying and squeezing out a whole child. 😅 I‘m just surprised my brain hasn‘t caught up with it. 4h

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Daisey

South!: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917 | Ernest H. Shackleton

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I‘ve read Caroline Alexander‘s book about Shackleton‘s expedition, & I have Alfred Lansing‘s on my shelf, so I couldn‘t resist downloading this audio as well. It‘s more straightforward & scientific in a logbook sort of way than Alexander‘s, but I still found most of it fascinating as a more immediate, first person version. The part about the Aurora got long to me, but other than that, I‘m amazed by this survival story every time I read about it.

Daisey #nonfiction #audiobook
#ReadingOceania2024 #Antarctica
#Read100 book 100 3d

Daisey * I accessed this audiobook through the #Librofm Educator #ALC program. Audio duration: 15 hours 48 minutes 3d

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MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage | Alfred Lansing

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An absolutely amazing story of survival. What these men went through is unimaginable and they faced it all head on. Shackleton was a rare kind of leader that got his men through the most unforgiving place on Earth. Nothing could stop them and the way they kept their humanity through it all is inspiring. Lansing brought all their accounts together in one compelling book, giving the reader a first hand look at what humans are capable of.

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Texreader

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance | Mensun Bound

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Mensun Bound was the Director of Exploration to attempt to find Ernest Shackleton‘s shipwreck at the bottom of an Antarctic sea, the Endurance, which sank during his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. This book covers both attempts in 2019 (unsuccessful) & 2022, which was successful. The 2022 search was bookended first by the pandemic, and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine, both affecting the morale of the crew. Even so they ⬇️

Librarybelle, BarbaraBB

Texreader persevered through extreme conditions and amazingly discovered it. I‘m sad I don‘t remember it in the news. I too was overwrought about the Russian invasion. This probably won‘t be a favorite of mine, the book can be extremely technical, and you have to know a lot of boating terms, which escape me. But I appreciated the history, and the palpable joy from the author from finding the ship. This is my 2nd book for #Antarctica #readingOceania 1mo

Librarybelle I don‘t remember the discovery mentioned in the news either! 1mo

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Texreader

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance | Mensun Bound

I started this audiobook today for #Antarctica #readingOceania. I decided to forego Greta and Valdin. I‘ve read way too many books on #NewZealand (6 or 7) and once I started listening to it I wasn‘t too keen on it. This will be only my second book for Antarctica

@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

emz711 If you're interested, I bet this book is similar

Erebus: One Ship, Two Epic Voyages, and the Greatest Naval Mystery of All Time

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Texreader

The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance | Mensun Bound

The cards are finally coming together as I listen to this audiobook. #litsylove @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#Antarctica #readingoceania @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle

dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo

Read4life Love the hedgehog 🦔 💙 1mo

ShelleyBooksie Beautiful job!! 1mo

Gissy 😍👌💛💚💛💚 1mo

Librarybelle Adorable!! 1mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Minds of Winter | Ed O'Loughlin

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Well that was gigantically disappointing.
There were hints of a story I wanted to read: a mysterious, possibly cursed object with a long history of doomed adventure, investigated in the present day by a pair with their own secrets/possible dark pasts, the promise of answers to both historical and contemporary mysteries; 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? maybe even magical realism/ghost stories in the possibility of appearing and disappearing land and people in the far North, which even today seems foreboding despite being no longer a place unmapped/unexplored. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? Unfortunately the present day framework was a collection of bare snippets with seemingly needless drag out of distrustful banal reveals between two strangers. The looks back in the past too often dragged on - trying to each be their own story in adding to the MacGuffin's mystique. It made it hard to care about any set of characters when you know you're just passing them by and looking for the clue buried inside the anecdote. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? I'm not a polar exploration historian so I have no context for how much the author completely made up or just reported verbatim from history, so it kind of loses its liveliness if one's left to wonder if this is mostly torn from a textbook. There are any number of melodramatic conversations which obviously the author would have had to extrapolate, but as interludes between men obsessed with exploration and ambition and the women left behind, they all start to blur together. 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? The link from the modern woman to the grandfather was the most intriguing, but we didn't get near enough of it. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/6 The book seems to mourn the loss of an age of exploration, of mystery, to the extent that it tried to both leave the mystery unsolved and give the most baffling, unsatisfactory answer to it at the same time. In modern times looking back, exploration is associated with conquest, invasion and resource stripping, I'm afraid there was no romance left to recapture, and the more fantastical fiction floated was too fragmented to enjoy as an alternative. 2mo

Texreader That‘s so disappointing! Love the cover 2mo

Robotswithpersonality @Texreader Exactly! Serves me right for being seduced by a cover. It's always a risk, me experimenting with historical fiction, but the synopsis definitely played up the mystery plot in a way I don't think the book makes good on. 🙎🏼‍♂️ 2mo

Texreader Oh I would have grabbed it by the description too! So glad for your honest review. 2mo

Robotswithpersonality @Texreader It makes me slightly happier to have read it knowing I saved someone else from doing so! 😅 2mo

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Robotswithpersonality

Minds of Winter | Ed O'Loughlin

Polar explorer math. 🤦🏼‍♂️ Or is that accounting? 🤔

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GinaKButler

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey | Candice Millard

Up next on audio 🎧 (I checked out a hard copy to see maps/photos/etc.)

My first by this author…looking forward to it!

TEArificbooks Loved this one 3mo

Texreader It‘s fantastic! Definitely in my top ten for 2023. 3mo

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Morr_Books

Admiral Richard Byrd: Alone in the Antarctic | Paul Rink

Having some coffee/reading time this morning and hoping to finish this book - #83 for #Roll100. This one has been on my shelf for more than 10 years.
@PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper Wow! 3mo

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