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| Cook’s “masterpiece,” taken by moonlight on June 3, 1898, with an exposure time of an hour and a half. |
Dear Bookclub,
While desperately missing Terrie and Trudy, our get-away gave us much needed resets and merriment to boost! Not wasting a minute... well maybe several to figure out half-price wine night, we got right to discussing Julian Sancton's "Madhouse at the End of the Earth". Fascinated by the work, we were spellbound by the survival story and enlightened by the historical account.
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| Our very comfortable La Jolla |
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| Getaway on the Belgica |
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| Around the table in the Antaractic |
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| Around the table in La Jolla |
I envied Sancton's researching for the book. Maybe I could do without the trip to Antarctica but to have read and found the diaries, memoirs and logs would be enthralling. About half of the members of the Belgica kept diaries, which is one of the 7 tips presented in the following short article, "Tips for Surviving Isolation from Antarctic Explorers" by Danielle McCahey, Department of History, University of Idaho:
https://www.uidaho.edu/class/history/news/isolation
Other tips include music (see accordion above) and alcohol:
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McMurdo Mule By Mike Santos, Gallagher's Pub, McMurdo Station, Antarctica |
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| https://legendsabroad.com/tennis-antarctica/ |
Up next:
Chill reading,
LK
