5/12/2023 0 Comments Madhouse at the end of earth![]() ![]() Only Cook spoke English so the journey did not generate many first-person English-language accounts. There are several reasons it has been overlooked, Sancton says. ![]() It has all now been gloriously recounted in Julian Sancton’s “Madhouse at the End of the Earth.” The ship even featured Amundsen as a young first mate and Cook as the ship’s doctor becoming fast friends and frequently staving off disaster. The ship, under the command of Belgian explorer Adrien De Gerlache, got stuck in the ice, leading to madness, death and the narrowest of great escapes. Yet there’s a story that has been largely neglected about a ship called The Belgica that predated all the most famous journeys. Stories have been told and re-told about these famed explorers: Robert Falcon Scott’s fatally flawed decision-making, Roald Amundsen’s savvy planning and endless fortitude, Ernest Shackleton’s steadfast, heroic leadership, and Frederick Cook’s scandalous frauds. The early years of the 20 th century were the glory days of polar exploration as adventurers sought to create their own legends by racing across the Arctic and Antarctica while striving to reach the North and South Pole. ![]()
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