Non-fiction: Richard E. Byrd: Alone (Island Press, 1938/2003) This was one of the last Antarctic classics I had yet to read, an account of Admiral Byrd’s stay alone in 1934 at the Advance Base weather station. Staying alone through the Antarctic winter proved to be hazardous, and most of the Continue Reading
Books
Antarctic Research Blog #77 – Mind Over Matter
Non-fiction: Ranulph Fiennes: Mind Over Matter (Delacorte Press, 1993) Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud attempted to cross the Antarctic continent manhauling unsupported in the 1992-93 season. Unsupported means that they pulled all of their food and equipment all the way from coast to coast, breaking the record for the longest Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #76 – Ice Bound (the book)
Non-fiction: Jerri Nielsen with Maryanne Vollers: Ice Bound (Ebury Press, 2001) I’ve already talked about Ice Bound the movie here, based on this very book. The book is Dr Jerri Nielsen’s own account of her time as the winter-over doctor at the U.S. South Pole station. She was stricken with Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #72 – Shadows on the Wasteland
Non-fiction: Mike Stroud: Shadows on the Wasteland (Penguin, 1994) The copy I got from Amazon’s used books is signed! The book also has an unusually poetic title, with the reference to the T.S. Eliot poem Stroud also quotes at the beginning of the book: Who is the third who walks Continue Reading
Mike Pohjola keskusteluohjelma Mariassa
Kaverini ja rikoskumppanini Mike Pohjola oli keskusteluohjelma Mariassa uuden kirjansa tiimoilta keskiviikkona3.9.2008:
RPGnet review of Playground Worlds
RPGnet has a review by Ryan Paddy of this year’s Knudebook Playground Worlds. Here’s what he has to say about my article, The Age of Indulgence: Juhana Pettersson is a funny guy, given to mock-serious writings. Here he discusses the potential of larp as a vehicle for physical indulgence. He Continue Reading
Tears
My friend Mike Pohjola has published a novel called (Gummerus, 2008), now reviewed in Turun Sanomat: Kadonneet kyyneleet lomittaa kaksi tarinaa, jotka näyttävät olevan melko kaukana toisistaan mutta joissa molemmissa on suhteellisen paljon ongelmia – itse asiassa enemmän kuin pienet ihmiset tai olennot ovat valmiita murtumatta kestämään. Se kertoo palasia Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #67 – Navigation Guide
Guidebook: Arturo De la Barrera Werner: Antarctica – Navigation Guide (unknown publisher & year) This is a bilingual (English and Spanish) navigational guidebook my mother brought to me from Chile. It’s full of navigational data, so I don’t really understand much of it, but it feels very professional! It looks Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #66 – Victim of the Aurora
Novel: Thomas Keneally: Victim of the Aurora (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich inc. 1978) An Antarctic novel by the same guy who wrote the book the Spielberg movie Schindler’s List was based on. It’s a historical story about the fictional Stewart expedition before WWI, a murder mystery on the ice. The big Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #64: Scott’s Journals
Non-fiction: Robert Falcon Scott, edited by Max Jones: Journals – Scott’s Last Expedition (Oxford University Press, 2005) This is one of the first books about Antarctica I got, but I’ve been putting off reading it because its very thick and because I don’t like Scott very much. The central story Continue Reading