Penguins Have Square Eyes eBook Patrick Trese
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This book is not about penguins, although they do make an appearance. It’s more of a misadventure story the kind of book that some men write about war. In this case, the battles are against nature the intense cold, the unforgiving, unexplored polar wilderness, the isolation, insomnia, boredom, terror and grief that men fought with grit and gallows humor at the bottom of the world.
In 1956, a bright, young man, trying to make his mark at NBC News, volunteers to go to the Antarctic with an audacious ex-Marine combat cameraman to produce TV documentaries. They wind up focusing – not on penguins – but on tough-talking Seabees, daring naval aviators and rugged scientists, all working in harsh conditions with little or no public recognition.
His account of documenting the work of the men of Operation Deepfreeze who built the polar scientific bases for the International Geophysical Year is sometimes hilarious, but often irreverent, cynical and heartbreaking. According to the men he covered back then, his book paints a true picture of what being down there “on the ice” was really like for them.
Penguins Have Square Eyes eBook Patrick Trese
This is a charming recounting of Operation Deepfreeze, the Navy and Airforce effort to build permanent housing in the Antarctic back in the mid '50s, for scientists coming to study the frozen continent during the International Geophysical Year, the winter of 1957-58, as told by a young television producer from NBC, who actually spent time "on the ice" filming the men (no women) crossing immense swaths of ice and snow. Reading the book now - almost 60 years after it was written - is almost like reading about people going to the moon, or landing on Mars for the first time. It truly was the last frontier back then. A real insight into the human being's ability to survive pretty much anywhere. And btw, apparently they really do have square eyes...Product details
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Penguins Have Square Eyes eBook Patrick Trese Reviews
Certainly enjoyed the journey.
This book is really fantastic. If you like a fast moving true adventure story, then this is for you. Mr. Trese is a truly gifted writer and really brings this adventure to life. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in journalism, Antarctica, or the military. buy it, you won't be sorry.
Any journalists worth their salt say they'll go to the ends of the earth for a story, but Patrick Trese really did. To the South Pole. Which is in Antarctica. And he came back, alive, bearing not only the Special Film Report NBC News sent him for, but also this slim and splendid book.
If "Penguins Have Square Eyes" contained nothing but Trese's description of the herding of a flock of malodorous, belly-squirming, liquid-s****ing, reluctant penguins for airborne-lofting, by nets, into a helicopter, it would be worth its mere-bag-of-shells price of admission.
But, among many other sub-zero adventures, he also gives us a breathtaking idea of what it feels like to ride inside the plexiglass nose turret of a monster Air Force Flying Machine as it soars in near silence, for hours, across an absolutely white landscape of snow and ice, horizonless against an all-white sky. Pow.
As for the title, one must get very, very close to a penguin to tell if Mr. Trese is kidding, or practicing the ancient, endangered art of spot-on accurate reporting.
Lots of luck with that.
-- Ed Hannibal
It's hard to imagine for some that a story like this could be so detailed and captivating. The people that Mr. Trese described, are from his first hand knowledge and direct physical experience not only as the author but also as a participant. I enjoyed his book because I discovered my desire to be at the South Pole when these events took place.
This is a charming recounting of Operation Deepfreeze, the Navy and Airforce effort to build permanent housing in the Antarctic back in the mid '50s, for scientists coming to study the frozen continent during the International Geophysical Year, the winter of 1957-58, as told by a young television producer from NBC, who actually spent time "on the ice" filming the men (no women) crossing immense swaths of ice and snow. Reading the book now - almost 60 years after it was written - is almost like reading about people going to the moon, or landing on Mars for the first time. It truly was the last frontier back then. A real insight into the human being's ability to survive pretty much anywhere. And btw, apparently they really do have square eyes...
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