THE MAN WHO ATE HIS BOOTS: THE TRAGIC HISTORY OF THE SEARCH FOR THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE

Book ID/图书代码： 10820010B41007

English Summary/英文概要： The enthralling, often harrowing story of the adventurers who searched in vain for the Northwest Passage, the holy grail of nineteenth-century British exploration.

Dozens of missions set out for the Arctic during the first half of the nineteenth century; all ended in failure and many in disaster, as men found themselves starving to death in the freezing wilderness, sometimes with nothing left to eat but their companions’ remains. Anthony Brandt traces the complete history of this noble and foolhardy obsession, which originated during the sixteenth century, bringing vividly to life this record of courage and incompetence, privation and endurance, heroics and tragedy. Along the way he introduces us to an expansive cast of fascinating characters: seamen and landlubbers, scientists and politicians, skeptics and tireless believers.
The Man Who Ate His Boots is a rich and engaging work of narrative history— a multifaceted portrait of noble adventure and of imperialistic folly.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 徒劳地寻找西北航道冒险家在十九世纪英国寻找圣杯的一个迷人，悲伤的故事。在十九世纪上半叶，十二个任务开始于北极，但却全部以失败和更多的灾难终结，就像人们发现自己即将饿死在冰冷的荒野上，什么吃的也没有，只有他们同伴的遗体。Anthony Brandt调查出了这一段崇高和鲁莽的历史，它起源于十六世纪，为那一段的生活背景增添了生动，记载了勇气和无能，穷困和耐力，英雄主义和悲剧。期间他向我们介绍了一个迷人的主人公：海员和新水手，科学家和政治家，怀疑论者和不懈的信徒。
《吃掉靴子的男子》是一本丰富，充满魅力的历史叙事作品——崇高冒险和帝国主义愚蠢的真相写照。(兼职翻译-PXD)

Awards/获奖情况：“ Brandt常以他特有的方式表达诙谐，他将北极探险这类荒谬行为以及寻找西北航道变成娱乐读者的内容。极力推荐。”——图书馆期刊（五星评论）

“英雄主义略微沾染一些丑闻，危险的冒险受到难以忍受的痛苦所困扰...对国家困扰的考验展现出了一些发现，超过60年的北极探索是徒劳的。

“Exotic and thrilling. . . . One of those books that can keep a reader inside for an entire weekend.”---Los Angeles Times

“Thoughtful, compassionate and meticulously researched . . . offers readers a vivid, compelling, ultimately heartbreaking history of Arctic exploration.”---The Oregonian

“A fascinating, at times thrilling, narrative.”---The Seattle Times

“Brandt is a superb and profound writer who leads us through a tale of such hardship you feel as if you’ve been aboard ship with them. It’s no small feat to use a bit of history to illuminate the future, but Brandt pulls it off. This is narrative history at its absolute gripping best.”---Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and War

“[Brandt is a] powerful storyteller, vividly re-creating the most dramatic episodes of the nineteenth century.”---Washington Post

“A robust new history. . . . Brandt tells his story well. . . . [He] achieves a modern synthesis between the hagiography of the old days and the more recent historical revisionism.”---The New York Times Book Review

“Brandt is a well-tempered storyteller, both thoroughgoing and agile, who knows what to do with a tale of high color and noble folly.”---San Francisco Chronicle

“A rich and satisfying read, and a classic history of Arctic exploration.”---Laurence Bergreen, author of Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu

“Lively, mischievous, and dryly ironic . . . deeply satisfying fare.”---Arctic Book Review

“A well-researched account. . . . Brandt is at his best when he weaves in back stories of the politics and petty feuds that shaped much of the public perception.”---Willamette Week

“A splendid, gripping account of an astounding, unbelievable quest. . . . What Brandt brings to this mesmerizing tale is what only fine writing can deliver: fully realized sense impressions that make history come memorably alive, and an informed, sensitive analysis of historical events that puts them in larger context.”---The Independent (Hamptons)

“Anthony Brandt’s account of the fatal quest for the Northwest Passage is fascinating, horrifying and inspiring. It is not just a great tale of heroic exploration, wonderfully told, but an epic voyage of discovery into the recesses of the human spirit.”---Piers Brendon, author of The Decline and Fall of the British Empire

“Brandt pens a colorful narrative full of gothic horrors, quiet daring, and petty personality clashes, and probes the social meaning of these odysseys. . . . The result is a gripping—and sometimes appalling—tale of heroism and hubris.”---Publishers Weekly (“Brandt丰富多彩的情节充满恐怖的哥特氛围，充满勇气，充满个人色彩，并阐明了这些冒险旅行的社会意义 ...其结果是扣人心弦的，有时甚至令人震惊——这是一个英雄主义和狂妄自大的故事。”——出版家周刊)

About the Author/作者介绍： Anthony Brandt is the editor of the Adventure Classics series published by National Geographic Society Press, and the books editor at National Geographic Adventure magazine. Formerly the book critic at Men’s Journal, Brandt has written for The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire, and many other magazines, and is the author of two previous books. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
Anthony Brandt，是由国家地理学会出版社出版的冒险名著系列的编辑，并在国家地理探险杂志担任图书编辑。曾在男士报刊担任评论家，Brandt为The Atlantic, GQ, Esquire以及其他许多杂志撰写稿子，已经出版过两本书。目前居住在纽约沙格哈伯。

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