Katie’s Reviews > The Voyage of the Discovery > Status Update

‘Report says that frequently one man was trying to capture another under the impression that he was a penguin’

Got me 😂

‘Life was a bright thing to him, and it is something to think that death must have come quickly in the grip of that icy sea.‘

Vince’s death and the near loss of that sledging party on the precipice is terrifying

Ascending in a balloon in Antarctica is just a wild idea

‘So there rest the remains of the only human being who has found burial on this great southern continent, and above his body still stands, in touching memorial, a plain wooden cross.’

That’s the most insane bit of foreshadowing 😬

Isle of Wight represent! (The Discovery sailed from Cowes)