Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

21 reviews

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Death, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Confinement, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Child death and Death of parent

francesca_eli's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death

rubymacbeth's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

A captivating story; I like that Julian Sancton really made an effort to delve into the psyche of all the main characters — it made the story that much more gripping, and the harsh landscape of Antarctica that much more vivid and disturbingly beautiful. My only reservation was that we need less books that focus on the privilege of white men and their exploits, but this isn’t a criticism of the book per se. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Violence

spooderman's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Sexism, Drug use, Excrement, Racial slurs, and Racism

Minor: Addiction, Infidelity, Cancer, Cannibalism, Child death, and Suicidal thoughts

johnawickline's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Animal death

Moderate: Mental illness and Death

arciz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death

cassroberts89's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring tense medium-paced

4.0

Talk about bringing history to life!

I actually did not realize this was non-fiction when I picked it up after just a brief glance at the back. I started reading the day before the Endurance was found, which made this story all the more exciting. It took a chapter or two, but after that I was hooked. Sancton did an absolutely phenomenal job turning a collection of scientific findings, sailor’s and officer’s journal entries, specimens, and artifacts into a fully fleshed out adventure/survival tale. I can’t even imagine having to endure the hardships this crew suffered during the long polar night, not to mention being almost completely at the mercy of Mother Nature during their entire entrapment in the ice pack. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Confinement

Moderate: Mental illness and Death

j_squaredd's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death and Death

sarah984's review against another edition

adventurous informative medium-paced

4.0

This was a really interesting story of Antarctic adventure and bad decisions. Several people on board the ship kept detailed diaries (and later wrote memoirs of varying accuracy) so many events are illustrated in the participants' own words. This really gives you a feel of the group dynamics on board, which is important in an isolation story about a small group. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Chronic illness, Medical content, and Mental illness

Moderate: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, Death, Excrement, Racism, and Vomit

Minor: Addiction, Cannibalism, Child death, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, and Infidelity

srm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

3.75

I love cold weather disaster stories. This one in an interesting addition to that genre, particular the look at an early  Roald Amundsen. But in so many ways, this is an expedition full of folks who had no business leaving home that it's less enjoyable than account of more competent explorers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Confinement, Death, and Medical content

Minor: Chronic illness