This is quite the story . . .
and true stuff . . . fact-is-more-amazing-than-fiction kind of true stuff
. . . based on ship records and extensive research. I feel as though I must
have been walking around with my ears closed to have lived in the U.S. my
entire life without having heard about this arctic voyage aiming for the North
Pole made on behalf of our country beginning in 1879 before now. Just wow . . .
I’m awed by what the men on the USS Jeannette experienced in the name of
exploration. If this were fiction, I would have said that some of the story
line was a bit too much to accept as possible.
To be honest, I don’t think I
would have made it through this book if I hadn’t listened to it in my car as an
audiobook. Even as a listener, I wasn’t sure I was going
to have enough patience to wait for the promised journey to begin. If I
remember correctly, the story of exploration itself didn’t start until sometime during the fourth out of 14 CDs. I kept listening, though, because I learned
something new and interesting every five or ten minutes or so, and I decided
that, alone, was worth the experience, even if the promised adventure was never
addressed, which, it ultimately was, in wonderful detail.
Now that I (and my husband) have
reached the end of the USS Jeannette’s story, I highly recommend it . . . but
not if you prefer generalization over specifics.
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