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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

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De Gerlache predicted that the expedition would cost about 300,000 francs ($1.8 million in current US dollars).

Does anybody know what conversion rate he used for this because every site I go to to try to convert Belgian Francs to USD it tells me it's worth about $8k, which presumably has to do with Belgium switching over to EUR in 2002. Using inflation converters for specific years doesn't work either since the data for Belgium only goes back to 1955. Did Sancton use a projected inflation rate to get these numbers??

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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

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What is your ideal book length?

My personal sweet spot is 200-400 pages, though certainly I read and love books that don't fall in this range! But I think this is a good length to get engrossed in a book without it becoming too much of a time commitment.

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You Should Be So Lucky

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing” ( The New York Times ) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry—with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter “The energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller.”— The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the the icy continent of Antarctica. But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters. De Gerlache sailed on, and soon the Belgica was stuck fast in the icy hold of the Bellingshausen Sea. When the sun set on the magnificent polar landscape one last time, the ship’s occupants were condemned to months of endless night. In the darkness, plagued by a mysterious illness and besieged by monotony, they descended into madness. In Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton unfolds an epic story of adventure and horror for the ages. As the Belgica’s men teetered on the brink, de Gerlache relied increasingly on two young officers whose friendship had blossomed in the expedition’s lone American, Dr. Frederick Cook—half genius, half con man—whose later infamy would overshadow his brilliance on the Belgica; and the ship’s first mate, soon-to-be legendary Roald Amundsen, even in his youth the storybook picture of a sailor. Together, they would plan a last-ditch, nearly certain-to-fail escape from the ice—one that would either etch their names in history or doom them to a terrible fate at the ocean’s bottom. Drawing on the diaries and journals of the Belgica’s crew and with exclusive access to the ship’s logbook, Sancton brings novelistic flair to a story of human extremes, one so remarkable that even today NASA studies it for research on isolation for future missions to Mars. Equal parts maritime thriller and gothic horror, Madhouse at the End of the Earth is an unforgettable journey into the deep.

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startripper

what’s the strangest object you’ve used as a bookmark? 👀

we’ve all used a variety things to mark our place in books, right? like a receipt, a ponytail, or a wrapper—but what’s something really weird you’ve used before? i’d say my most random bookmark was an orange peel…it’s a long story, but let’s just say desperate times, desperate measures 😭😭

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CorvoReads

Ebook app recs?

Hello! I tried to search a bit through the PB Club but wasn’t able to find a post about this (maybe i put the wrong keywords? idk) and searching online gives me too many options 🤣 so I decided to make a post :)

As the post's title says, I'm searching for an app (I have an android tablet) for reading ebooks, as I have some ebooks I got from Project Gutenberg and a bunch of pdf articles from JStor I'd love to read. But also, it'd be nice if i could also use it to download other ebooks (even if i find a pain reading stuff on a screen for long, but could work to read book previews before buying physical copies, i guess), but not tied to kobo or kindle and the likes.

I tried in the past using an old kobo reader, but maybe because it's very old (got it in 2012 iirc) it glitches easily, and it's a pain to use. I now have an epub reader and a pdf reader plugin on Obsidian, but it's not the best solution imho, bc I can't highlight/take notes.

TL;DR does anyone have any recs for android apps (not kindle or kobo) where i can read ebooks/pdfs and also download them? Bonus points if i can highlight or similar!

Sorry if it's too wordy! Thank you in advance for the help!

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What are you reading during winter storm Fern?

I am curious to know: Wether or not you are in the pathway of the winter storm Fern, what books (any format) have you set aside to read while hunkering down/over the weekend? I would like to know; comment them down below! 📖 I personally have 11 ebooks downloaded + 1 physical hardcover, but I don't expect to be able to get through them all meanwhile. Anybody else reading the titles down below, as well?