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Daisuke Komatsu daimac — I read this book for an intercultural communication class. It really had an impact on my view of international relations, as it really shows the often fanatical nationalist attitudes so many Americans still hold today.

Alex Lareo lexlareo — Honest and heart breaking story of Ian Curtis' rise to fame in Joy Division written by his former wife. I especially liked the story from his wife's point of view and the emotional toll his epilepsy, fame, and infidelity took on her, although she never lets it eclipse the true story of Ian's brilliance.

Kelly Lender kellylender — Apsley Cherry-Garrard was the youngest of the members of Robert Scott's south pole expedition in 1912. He was one of the three explorers who undertake the torrid journey for seven weeks in the biting Antarctic winter cold to collect some precious Emperor penguin eggs for the scientists. The book's title refers to this journey as 'the worst journey' and rightly so. The account of that journey is superbly brought to life by Cherry-Garrard with his brilliant capacity for writing. The rest of the book is a gripping account of the polar expedition which goes terribly wrong. Cherry-Garrard finally goes in search of the polar explorers when they don't return. He finds the dead bodies of Scott and his companions and their diaries which were all part of the history of polar exploration. The author writes in his introduction that "Polar Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.". There is a poignant aside in the narration. The author eventually brings the emperor penguin eggs to the Natural history museum in London for safe-keeping and research. But the clerk at the museum treats him so badly with scant understanding of the monumental efforts which were behind the eggs that he has brought with him. All through the book, the author has only wonderful words for the courage and commitment of his fellow-expeditioners. The author was hardly 22 years old when he leaves for the Antarctic with little experience for such hardship in such punishing conditions. It is a sign of the times that he simply sails into this endeavour and does his job with splendid credit and never even brags one word about himself. This is so typical of many of the explorers of those times. At the end, he says: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." Cherry-Garrard has great facility in writing and the book is superbly narrated with great attention to detail. Most of whatever is found in the book has been confirmed by the diaries of the other members of the expedition and so it is very authentic. This book has been denoted the best adventure book ever by National Geographic Adventure magazine. A must read.