A longer and punchier book but a credit to the genre as well.
I do suggest that if one is drawn to books like this… The Worst Journey in the World… About the Ill-fated Terra Nova expedition. In a sense you get the feeling that he knows it is just a matter of time until he falls from the sky only to vanish forever. I guess the icing on the cake of this novel is knowing how the author met his fate after describing the manner in which several of his peers met theirs. To know and feel not only his experience (which is harrowing) but to know that he devoted so many of his thoughts to those around him whose suffering and bedraggled lives did as well. The author describes in vivid detail the life of a pilot in the French Mail service…the good, the bad and the very ugly. I read a translation of the novel from the French and it kind of sticks in my craw.
A read that is well worth it, takes us across the skies, through the sand and at times other places none of us ever want to be. What is it? What is made of and what makes it flourish? In this short volume those questions are answered by the author.
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