The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109001   Message #2566405
Posted By: GUEST,heric
13-Feb-09 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Read any good books lately?
Subject: RE: BS: Read any good books lately?
No, kat, I wish I'd known about it and had it handy. I don't usually re-read stuff. Those polar guys tended to be broadly educated Renaissance types, capable of powerful prose. There are only sparse quotes:

"The actual experience is something else. Picture drift that blots out the world, that is hurled, actually screaming with energy, through space in a 100 mile an hour wind. When the temperature is below freezing. Those are the facts. But then shroud these infuriated elements with polar night and a plunge into such a black-white writhing storm is to stamp on the senses an indelible, awful impression seldom equalled in the whole gamut of natural experience. [The world became a void], fierce, grisly appalling; a fearful gloom in which the merciless blast was an incubus of vengeance that stabbed, froze, and buffetted intruders with the stinging drift that choked and blinded."

From that, I would guess that the book in Mawson's own words is a good risk.