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Simon Nasht, a veteran correspondent for newspapers and television, is an award-winning documentary producer, writer, and director. His documentary The Voyage of the Nautilus, about Wilkins taking a submarine under the polar ice for the first time in history, has aired on the National Geographic afficher plus Channel and won a Jules Verne Award. He lives with his wife and children in Australia and is at work on a new book. afficher moins

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If Hubert Wilkins was like other pole explorers with dozens and dozen of books written about him, this book might not be the greatest work. Like many historical biographies there is a habit of injecting emotion and details into scenes which bring the work a little closer to fiction than I'm comfortable with. However, with so few books written about Hubert Wilkins this book becomes a really interesting read. His activities were put into historical context, but more could have been done to explore the rapid technological developments which made certain explorations impossible at the start of his career and possible by the end. The author is very aware of this and does bring it up regularly, but without detail. For example, only a few decades separated Wilkin's Nautilus from the Rickover Nautilus - that's incredible! A discussion of the differences between the two vessels (in greater detail than 'bigger and with nuclear power') would have been interesting, but perhaps a subject that is better left to another book.

As usual, these kinds of books always need more maps and more diagrams.
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sarcher | 1 autre critique | Jul 28, 2019 |
bought today 1 of 12 books for $10 the lot.
 
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velvetink | 1 autre critique | Mar 31, 2013 |

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