To help tell the story, Palin has traveled to various locations across the world – Tasmania, the Falklands, the Canadian Arctic – to search for local information and experience the terrain and the conditions that would have confronted the Erebus and her crew. BUY 1, GET 1 AT 25 OFF (add 2 to basket) See all eligible items and terms. Erebus: The Story of a Ship Palin, Michael. This book, instead, is incredibly well-researched and written. Erebus: The Story of a Ship,Michael Palin- 9781784758578. However, I did not enjoy how the script soon took part from the real events, turning the story into something closer to Jurassic Park, and that’s where I stopped watching the series. As a former navy sailor myself, I appreciated how they realistically reconstructed the claustrophobic every-day life on board the Victorian age ships.
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I first became interested in these two ships’ Arctic adventure after watching the fictionalized TV series The Terror with my son Marco. As it turns out, since 1980, he has also made many travel documentaries and books. Gregory, who had never been to sea before, was aboard the H.M.S. I knew Michael Palin as a member of the Monty Python comedy group. An excellent book by a well-known author who gives us an in-depth look at the lives and tragic ends of the Victorian ships Erebus and Terror who were lost with. These ships carried mortars that could fling shells high over coastal defences, doing maximum. They were trying to find a way through the Northwest Passage.129 men were on board.
Launched in 1826, it vanished with her sister ship, The Terror, in 1846. Erebus: The Story of a Ship is a biography of the voyage that was mentioned in Conrad's book, Heart of Darkness. I finished reading Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin, an excellent book on the dramatic adventures of the HMS Erebus with her sister ship, the HMS Terror, first in James Clark Ross’s Antarctic expedition of 1839-43, and then during Franklin’s ill-fated Arctic expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. The Erebus was the last but one of a type of late-17th century warship called a bomb vessel. A biography of a ship and of Victorian heroism.
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