Comments on: Book review – Erebus: The Story of a Ship/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:03:13 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Full Fathom 5000: The Expedition of HMS Challenger and the Strange Animals It Found in the Deep Sea | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-94990Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:03:13 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-94990[…] scientists never met each other again, and the ship, as opposed to e.g. the further adventures of HMS Erebus, was mothballed and unceremoniously scrapped for copper in 1921. Though the Challenger expedition […]

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]]>By: Book review – Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-29757Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:32:35 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-29757[…] waters: the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror (Michael Palin vividly told their story in his 2018 book Erebus). The Americans, in comparison, made a hash of it. Unable to find willing or suitable candidates, […]

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]]>By: Book review – Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-12053Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:23:54 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-12053[…] commanding the HMS Endeavour, Resolution, and Adventure, and later James Clark Ross aboard the HMS Erebus and Terror. Particularly influential, and featured here extensively by McCann, was the HMS […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-10069Sat, 30 May 2020 14:56:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-10069[…] already familiar with some of these people; Shackleton’s expeditions came up in my review of Erebus while the recently reviewed The Ice at the End of the World introduced me to Nansen, Peary and […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Polar Affair: Antarctica’s Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-8066Thu, 20 Feb 2020 10:10:28 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-8066[…] already familiar with some of these people; Shackleton’s expeditions came up in my review of Erebus: The Story of a Ship while the recently reviewed The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland’s […]

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]]>By: Book review – Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/11/05/book-review-erebus-the-story-of-a-ship/comment-page-1/#comment-6834Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:19:44 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2408#comment-6834[…] A Biography), and later James Clark Ross aboard the HMS Erebus and Terror (see also my review of Erebus: The Story of a Ship). Particularly influential, and featured here extensively by McCann, was the HMS Challenger […]

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