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but if the doctors stripping down to lie on the ice and the captains about to shoot him thinking he’s an adventurous seal then WHO is going to stop us getting scurvy via naked fire time

even the dragons getting in on the love island action man

REREAD TIMEEE

“I think I should make up in perseverance what I might want in sense” is conceptually the funniest words james fitzjames could’ve put to paper while discussing going to the arctic

imagine thinking you’re subtle in 1833 for indicating each day you got laid in your diary with an “X”, only for historians to later crack your code and publish it in a book. I feel sorry for the opera houses in malta

“All returned to tell their tales of adventure except the franklin expedition” well no

Franklin expedition has led me to books I wouldn’t usually approach without a lighter

each time there’s another new french name to pronounce in here I send a telepathic apology to clem

if there’s one thing about me it’s that I devour a book with an evil demon thing with a sense of humour trapped in the mind of the main character. welcome back the nightmare and elspeth

it doesn’t matter how many times I read it, the funniest bit of polar exploration to me is john rae going back to london with his earth shattering cannibalism news and relics, but the relics in question are franklin's plate and crozier's spoon and a fork. just missing the fitzjames cannibalism cookbook

did anyone else know arthur conan doyle was a ships surgeon in the arctic for seven months. elementary my dear watson i have deduced that the franklin expedition are fucked

I think there is a point to be made about how rae approaches the pelly banks cannibalism with sympathy understanding and criticism only for the guy that left them to get that desperate, and his approach to the franklin expedition cannibalism .. like yeah of course he’d come at it like this is an understandable tragedy instead of with the victorian public’s sense of repulsion

rereading one of my fave arctic books for a buddy read with clem. if you thought I was annoying about john rae before then buckle in and listen up

“ten months afterwords we found their bodies” polar explorers STOP saying things are “all well”. I don’t think that has worked out for you historically even once

“this ended the worst journey in the world” there. there are over two hundred pages left

+ the love cherry has for the others on the expedition is soooo :(

trigger warning lord b*ron

this evening we are seeing how hard I can lock in. can I finish this in two days

there is a special place in my heart for any book that can evoke the same sense of fairytale I felt when first watching stardust 2007

cherry narrates this like the news guy from horrible histories. “we were the happiest guys around … but NOT FOR LONG!”

they spend a comically large amount of time in this book singing to penguins

second (third?) reread time thank you cassie clare

amundsen is simultaneously a twat and the funniest person in the world

the difference between this book and katabasis is that explains the million references because alex doesn’t get them, whereas katabasis drove me clinically insane

I know i am not the one to be trusted as an expert on men but darlington is so BORING my god get to fuck. “I hope we get him back” I hope a shapeshifted cockerel eats him at least thatd make him interesting

is this a safe space to admit I thought the trojan horse debacle really happened until like two years ago

fuck you mean alex is short for galaxy

I think the highlight of this book is how many times a pissed off crew member steals a gun and makes a threat before they even reach antarctica

fuck you mean a leopard seal tried to eat one of them on two separate occasions

I sat down to read a bit of this while I ate tea. I blinked and read two thirds of the buggering thing

james clarke ross mentioned