http://www.mxi2000.net/mudworm/2009/12/tucson-drive-to Inch by inch, I will get there. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:37:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mxi2000.net/mudworm/2009/12/tucson-drive-to/comment-page-1#comment-23793 Alison Chaiken Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:38:31 +0000 http://www.mxi2000.net/mudworm/?p=805#comment-23793 I've always enjoyed reading about the polar adventurers. Barry Lopez's _Arctic Dreams_ is well worth a look if you haven't encountered it. I also liked William Vollman's _The Ice-Shirt_. What's really stayed with me all these years though is the description of Frankenstein's monster roaming endlessly about the Pole. And consider the John Franklin expedition's realization one August that the ice was not going to melt and their ship would be frozen in a second winter: yikes! I saw some of the artifacts from the Franklin expedition at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, U.K. My trip to Iceland in June 2007 was motivated largely by reading all these stirring books. Iceland did not disappoint: you and Erik would enjoy visiting there. I've always enjoyed reading about the polar adventurers. Barry Lopez's _Arctic Dreams_ is well worth a look if you haven't encountered it. I also liked William Vollman's _The Ice-Shirt_. What's really stayed with me all these years though is the description of Frankenstein's monster roaming endlessly about the Pole. And consider the John Franklin expedition's realization one August that the ice was not going to melt and their ship would be frozen in a second winter: yikes! I saw some of the artifacts from the Franklin expedition at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, U.K. My trip to Iceland in June 2007 was motivated largely by reading all these stirring books. Iceland did not disappoint: you and Erik would enjoy visiting there.

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