Discovery and exploration – Cannonball Read 17

“The human factor is three-quarters of any expedition.”

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton

February 20, 2025 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

I’m apparently not normally a reader of books about polar exploration. I cannot find a single one in my 12 years of book reviews. I know it’s an area that I watch documentaries about, but apparently not one I read (although I do occasionally read books about Mt. Everest). However, over the past few months I’ve added several to my to-read list. I’m not sure why, maybe it was my pleasant reading experience of Ghost Ship last summer that put books about exploration by boat […]

If people were already there, how did we discover it?

New World by David Jesus Vignolli

March 31, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Artistically, New World by David Jesus Vignolli is well done. However, there was something missing to the story itself. The story opens with a commentary by someone (you are not exactly sure yet) and the colors are all but nonexistent. Slowly, you start to see color when the eye of a sailor comes into focus. It is green. You are zoomed into the eye, step by step, with the green getting more and more obvious. Then you see what looks to be trees. A jungle. […]

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