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

 

[Jim_H]

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

This was another great read by Adam. If you have not had a chance to read the rest of his books you are missing out. I really enjoyed Alone Against the North and A History of Canada in Ten Maps.

 

[Tsuga8]

This was another great read by Adam. If you have not had a chance to read the rest of his books you are missing out. I really enjoyed Alone Against the North and A History of Canada in Ten Maps.

I didn't know about him til I happened upon this book, but I'm definitely planning to read more of his work now.

 

[Jim_H]

I am currently reading Coming Into the Country by John Mcphee and slowly working my way through Canoes A Natural History in North America by Norman Simms & Mark Neuzil. The latter is 100% in my top ten books. An absolute must for anyone who loves the history of canoes.

 

[Farback]

Reading the fourth in a John Sanford series for fun, ‘Bad Blood’ and various tech training for my new volunteer job with CASARA, civilian air search and rescue.