Pynchonian explorers

[Joe Allonby]

Amundsen's exploration of the Northwest Passage revolutionized Arctic and
Antarctic exploration. He realized that the Eskimo's who lived in that
environment were better equipped to survive than the "technologically
superior" Europeans who kept inconveniently dying. So he stopped and took
the time out of his voyage to learn from them. The things that he learned
(travel light, use dogs instead of horses, small ships, high fat diet,
natural furs from arctic animals worn loosely instead of commercial
textiles, etc) went against the European grain but proved successful.

On 11/21/06, Scott Badger <lupine at ncia.net> wrote:
>
>  Roald Amundsen
>
> Dr Frederick Cook
>
> But, perhaps, most of all, Apsley Cherry-Garrard for his 5 week sledging
> trip through the antarctic night to gather penguin eggs...should be a
> Pynchon shoe-in on name alone...
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Lary Wallace <pytheas76 at yahoo.com>
> *To:* pynchon-l at waste.org
>  *Sent:* Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:26 AM
> *Subject:* Pynchonian explorers
>
>
>  On the AtD wiki, I just saw a photo of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof
> Nansen. Does he make a cameo in AtD or something? I certainly hope so. Like
> a lot of readers drawn to Pynchon, I share his fascination with explorers,
> both fictional and actual, and so I don't think it's at all inappropriate to
> this discussion to ask everyone who their favorite (real-life) explorers
> are. I'm a Richard Byrd man myself.
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20061124/9da95228/attachment.html>