Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by ozcap on Friday November 22, 2024 @10:13PM
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Definitely adding this to my list. I was stationed in Antarctica for three months earlier this year and it really gave me a newfound respect for these early explorers. I can’t imagine navigating such an environment with only relatively basic equipment and the stars.
Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by atlasunshrugged on Saturday November 23, 2024 @12:24PM
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Wow, what was being stationed in Antarctica like? Have you written about your experience?
Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by pieix on Friday November 22, 2024 @10:09PM
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> I am waiting for time to forget enough of it so that I can read it again.
Incredible book and story, I read it this year too and your statement resonates.
Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by ARob109 on Friday November 22, 2024 @10:09PM
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Yes. I could not put this book down.
If you liked this one as an against the odds shipwreck survival story, David Grann’s The Wager is also very good.
Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by bwb on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:10AM
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Thinking of Into Thin Air still makes me feel cold, intense book :)
Re:Ask HN: Best non-fiction book you read in 2024?
by cheshire137 on Saturday November 23, 2024 @09:46PM
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I'm reading Endurance now after just having finished Into Thin Air. Good stuff.
Read it, read it now.
It's the kind of book that you once you read, you'll never forget. 4.8 stars with 23k reviews on Amazon. Similar survival story vibes as books like "Into Thin Air" or "Into the Wild" but just on another level. It follows the story of a journey to Antarctica in 1914 that goes wrong and ends up with the ship trapped in ice for many months, and follows the crews absolutely insane attempts at survival.
I am waiting for time to forget enough of it so that I can read it again.