Oh no... oh no!!
I started A First Rate Tragedy by Diana Preston (I KNOW I HAVE NOT FINISHED SHACKLES'S SOUTH AND MJ ROSS'S POLAR PIONEERS LEAVE ME ALONE I'M A POOR ADHD MESS and they're both rather dry authors)
And... oh no! I... I like this Captain Scott character! I've always had a recounting of the story through exposés about Shackleton or Amundsen (and he is not always painted in the kindest light) but... oh no! I'm gonna be so sad by the end of it :(
Diana Preston really paints an endearing boy in his youth, the sort of little pest I would have loved to have known but also the anecdote about how he would take care of the passengers on the Amphion shows him to be compassionate as well.
Preston has a wonderful pen! It's not easy for me to read (I am a page jumper) but my eyes are glued to her sentences. I've always wondered why Scott, who had made so many mistakes and ultimately lost everything in the race was acclaimed and remembered so heroically and only through her introduction, Preston absolutely made me curious to review my perception.
I'm not far in just yet but I feel this is going to change me.
