Erebus: The Story of a Ship

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Over the years I've read a number of polar exploration books so I was familiar with aspects of this story. Apart from Danger Islets, there is Cape Longing, Cape Disappointment, Delusion Point and Exasperation Bay, only slightly compensated for by Useful Island on the other side of the peninsula"; чи сценка на російському кораблі, де команда захоплюється, що в них пливе справжній кіноактор, а Пейлін соромиться розказати, що його остання роль - це Молотов у "Смерті Сталіна").

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Palin] does an admirable job of recounting the life of this doughty ship , from construction at Pembroke dockyard in 1826 to her last days stuck fast in the ice . Michael Palin really brought the characters, and their various jostlings for position and favour, to life. Mrs Woolf, wife of the manager, is a very celebrated author and, in her own way, more important than Galsworthy. I also liked the way he places the importance of the expedition in contemporary Canadian politics, bringing the story right up to date. In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval expeditions of all time.

You can unsubscribe from our list at any point by changing your preferences, or contacting us directly. He is clearly an intelligent and thoughtful man, able to offer his own insights into the story from his various travels.Instead, there is an anthology of references utilised at the end of the book to address the sources of gleaned information but it is not always easy to ascertain where he has sourced particular facts. Palin’s Erebus is a comprehensive account of one of the most famous Arctic and Antarctic exploration vessels. What you will get is a solid narrative from a passionate (and, yes, witty) amateur historian about two amazing adventures. Palin transports us back in time to 1826 when the bomb vessel, Erebus, was launched from Pembroke Dockyard in Wales. Erebus was the last but one of the warships known as bomb vessels, able to fling shells over coastal defences.