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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.… (más)
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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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For Albert and Rose
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INTRODUCTION HOOKER'S STOCKINGS I've always been fascinated by sea stories.
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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
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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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