What are you reading?

[Black_Fly]

I just finished Into the Ice. Great book if you know any sailors or have an interest in the early NW passage expeditions. It’s really two stories, one about the author’s journey and also the lost Franklin expedition. Very well written.

My son wants to sail the NW passage when his cancer treatments conclude. Not sure I want him to do it after reading the book.

 

[Tsuga8]

I recently finished Vanished Beyond the Map: The Mystery of Lost Explorer Hubert Darrell by Adam Shoalts. It was a fantastic read (I listened on Libro.fm, actually) about an explorer of the Canadian Arctic, highly respected by the famous explorers of the day but someone who never sought fame for himself and never achieved it. He bucked the explorer-trends of the day (large, well-supplied parties) and chose to learn from the local indigenous peoples to live off the land, as well as learning multiple First Nations languages. He disappeared before ever attaining financial security or marrying his fiancee. Shoalts weaves in some of his modern day canoeing trips looking for evidence of what really happened to Darrell.

If not available from your local library or bookstore, you can support independent bookstores by ordering a copy from Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/p/books/vanish...lts/ad6ea01acb511402?ean=9780735236868&next=t

 

[Boatman53]

I’m a bit more than half way through The Gales Of November, about the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald and what it was like to be in the shipping business on the Great Lakes.
Jim

 

[BillyT]

Currently working through East of Eden and The Brothers Karamasov at the moment... Don't know why I decided to have those two going at the same time

 

[Pseudonym]

@BillyT East of Eden is so good. You can smell the prose.

I'm reading:

• "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future." It's a little dated. Published 2016, it lacks context relative to data centers and EV adoption, but it is still fascinating. Reading it ten years later makes the perspective of the author's expectations more apparent.
• The Craft of Sail, by Jan Adkins. Adkins is AMAZING. Lifting Heavy Things is another quick delight. Reminds me a bit of Eric Sloan (The Weather Book, etc.)
• Next up is Iran (Polity Histories).

 

[Boatman53]

I second Jan Atkins books and articles.
Jim