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Pretty darn good

An excellent look at what planning, preparation, and the appropriate use of tools and resources. Scott and Amundsen could not be more different. And this book does a great job at telling the story as it actually happened.

The story of the first circumnavigation of our planet includes adventure, mutiny, detailed descriptions of European encounters with indigenous cultures of South America, Polynesia, and cultures of the Philippines. While the tale is written primarily from the European perspective since that is where the sources come from, the author adeptly describes what may have been occurring from the perspectives as Well.

Classic.