- Paperback: 560 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; paperback / softback edition (4 Aug 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753819864
- ISBN-13: 978-0753819869
- Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 4.1 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 536,472 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Mr Fleming, a born storyteller, takes us with him all the way.' (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )
'An excellent book for lovers of history and adventure.' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )
'An excellent book for lovers of history and adventure.' (GOOD BOOK GUIDE )
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'An excellent book for lovers of history and adventure.'
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Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the 20th-century author and explorer, famously described exploration as a meaningless pursuit. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I felt I had to review here, if only to give a counter opinion to the one shown already.
I read Fleming's 'Barrow's Boys' a couple of years ago, and instantly considered it the best book in its genre I've ever read. Then I read his '90 Degrees North' and had to admit Barrow's Boys had competition.
This is more of the same from an excellent storyteller, and enthralling and funny throughout.
In this, as in his aforementioned titles, Fleming has the ability to make even those stories you already knew gripping. I'm an author myself (a writer of comedy books) and I find that Fleming's effortless humour has me chuckling at situations I doubt I've ever laughed at before.
He's made history fun, and I would recommend this book to anybody.
I read Fleming's 'Barrow's Boys' a couple of years ago, and instantly considered it the best book in its genre I've ever read. Then I read his '90 Degrees North' and had to admit Barrow's Boys had competition.
This is more of the same from an excellent storyteller, and enthralling and funny throughout.
In this, as in his aforementioned titles, Fleming has the ability to make even those stories you already knew gripping. I'm an author myself (a writer of comedy books) and I find that Fleming's effortless humour has me chuckling at situations I doubt I've ever laughed at before.
He's made history fun, and I would recommend this book to anybody.
Format:Paperback
I received this paperback from my in-laws for Christmas last year, and I'm writing this review because I am scanning Fleming's other works for this year's Christmas list!
I think the negative review on this page, while perhaps having a point about the use of maps, is a shame. I found the whole book gripping, especially the multiple chapters revisiting the search for the North Passage and the pole, not to mention Shackleton's adventures.
I started this book on boxing day and spent the last days of my Christmas holiday finishing it. I've gone back to it again and again throughout the year and have thoroughly enjoyed owning it.
Buy it for your son-in-law or Dad for Christmas - he'll love it.
I think the negative review on this page, while perhaps having a point about the use of maps, is a shame. I found the whole book gripping, especially the multiple chapters revisiting the search for the North Passage and the pole, not to mention Shackleton's adventures.
I started this book on boxing day and spent the last days of my Christmas holiday finishing it. I've gone back to it again and again throughout the year and have thoroughly enjoyed owning it.
Buy it for your son-in-law or Dad for Christmas - he'll love it.
9 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Billing itself as 'forty-five gripping accounts of some of the most amazing feats in the history of exploration' leads one to expect a certain standard. Fleming unfortunately has not lived up to it; whilst the tales are indeed amazing, the narrative is turgid and rarely allows the reader to get close to the historical characters. Lack of feeling and only brief accounts of tremendous events that profoundly changed individuals, mean there are significant holes in the book. It is probably due to the ambitious scale of the work that such holes exist.
The book is packed with maps- at least one for each tale. However; they are often replicated with only minor alterations, fail to show the routes that travellers took (leaving this jigsaw down to the reader to work out from the confused narrative), and often miss out important place names mentioned in the text. Failure to provide explanation of reoccuring scientific themes, ie. the difficulties of working out longitude/latitude, is annoying and leaves the reader as mystified as the early explorers!
Full of fascinating and worthy subject matter, badly told.
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