Minds of Winter

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When history looks through the annals of polar exploration, it is sure to deem Sir John Franklin s 1845 campaign in search of the Northwest Passage as the darkest chapter All 129 men would be lost to the ice and nothing retrieved from an inventory that included two Greenwich chronometers given to the expedition When historians analyze the most profound mysteries of the modern age, they therefore remain mystified as to just how one of those very same timepieces would reappear in London crudely disguised as a Victorian carriage clock over a century and a half after being recorded as lost in the famous disaster It is a real life mystery that did, and still continues to, defy an explanation When Nelson Nilsson catches the eye of the lone female in the arrivals hall of Inuvik airport in the Northern Territories of Canada, the last thing his life needs is further complication Still unable to comprehend the enigmatic obsession that led his brother to take his own life, Nelson just wants to get in his care and drive When travel weary Fay Morgan looks up and mistakes Nelson for a taxi driver, she realizes for the first time that she has finally made it to the one place on earth that may hold the answer to her burning question And when she capitalizes on Nelson s good nature and obtains a lift, she feels fate is on her side It is an improbable meeting that will unearth an impossible connection as the questions Nelson has about his present, and those Fay has about her past, share a common link itself inextricably tied to the movements of an elusive timepiece. Free Read Minds of Winter [ By ] Ed O'Loughlin [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Like Wayne and Garth, I m not worthy When I accidentally downloaded this 500 page ARC to my cellphone instead of an iPad and one only gets a single chance to download , and said novel turned out to include dozens of locations, time periods, and characters, my feedback on the clunky reading experience is unworthy of the effort put in by the author For what it s worth, I m bumping this from a 3.5 to a 4 in apology for not giving the book a fair shot.A few months ago, I developed a little crush Like Wayne and Garth, I m not worthy When I accidentally ...This starts so well a young woman at a celebratory ball hosted by two of the Royal Navy captains involved in mid nineteenth century Arctic exploration With a delicate, almost Austen esque, hand O Loughlin sketches in character and emotion so that when Sophia suffers emotional disappointment, I was heartsore with her A turn of the page and these characters were all swept away, Sophia amongst them, to be only minimal walk on characters in another narrative completely and already I was disap This starts so well a young woman at a celebratory ball hosted by two of the Royal Navy captains involved in mid nineteenth century Arctic exploration With a delicate, almost Austen esque, hand O...This was a fun trip, I enjoyed the prose and the narrative because it enhances the scenery put forward in this book, I always had have a soft spot for ice and snow so this book was right up my alley Arctic exploration is one of my main interests , that s why I picked up this book The story flows well enough , you get lost in the many timelines this book contains and you have a little bit of problem keeping up with all the different characters that are introduced as the timelines progress, but This was a fun trip, I enjoyed the prose and the narrative because it enhances the scenery put forward in this book, I always had have a soft spot for ice and snow so this book was right up my alley Arctic exploration is one of my main interests , that s why I picked up this book The story flows well enough , you get lost in the many timelines this book contains and you have a little bit of problem keeping up with all the different ch...Visit the destinations in the novel here Minds of Winter booktrail mapHow have I managed never to have heard of this true story I ve read a lot of fiction set in the Arctic and love the sense of historic explorations, discoveries etc Clocks and chronometers another one of my obsessions This book brought them all together and .The cover caught mu eye for a start the maps, the clocks , pictures of men exploring the ice fields, pulling packs on their expedition Trailing involved All o Visit the destinations in the novel here Minds of Winter booktrail mapHow have I managed never to have heard of this true story I ve read a lot of fiction set in the Arctic and love the sense of historic explorations, discoveries etc Clocks and chronometers another one of my obsessions This book brought them all together and .The cover caught mu eye for a start the maps, the clocks , pictures of men exploring the ice fields, pulling packs on their expedition Trailing involved All of this with a true story into the mix and I was captivated.It s quite a complicated tale and the time frames back and forth did get a bit confusing I have to admit There ...While I was thoroughly looking forward to settling in and reading about this tragedy on a cold winter s night, this book initially did not end up doing it for me As another reviewer mentioned this seemed to have snippets of a story I originally thought would continue I really felt ...It s been pretty cold up here in Montana lately We had windchills of 40 and there were warnings not to spend much time outside in fear of frostbite symptoms So of course, I decided now would be a good time to crack open Minds of Winter This epic mystery novel about the polar explorers spans a good chunk of time and a fair few pages A mass of story lines and new characters added throughout, it was hard at first to really get into the story Once the connections between characters and the yea It s been pretty cold up here in Montana lately We had windchills of 40 and there were warnings not to spend much time outside in fear of frostbite symptoms So of course, I decided now would be a good time to crack open Minds of Winter This epic mystery novel about the polar explorers spans...I read the chunkiest of the Giller Longlisted titles first Blurbed as ambitious I would have to agree I enjoyed it for the most part, but then found it got bogged down by all the extra stories, extra people,stories,people thrown into the mix My very favourite part of the book was the section narrated by Ipiirviq This is only the first of the 12 I ve read, so I can t say too much about it s potential to make the shortlist It is an ambi...Failures of NavigationBroughton Island Cape Dyer Cape Mercy Brevoort Island Loks Land Resolution Island Cape Kakaviak Saglek Cape Kiglapait Big Bay Tukialik Cartwright Do we believe in these places she wondered Was that it Does it matter so long as we can say their namesBefore the advent of GPS, navigation required the accurate measurement of both space and time You would think that Ed O Loughlin s...Review originally published 19 March 2017 at Falling Letters.At 500 pages long, Minds of Winter dwarfs the kind of books I usually prefer to read Had I known that, I might not have requested it Still, I wanted to give it a go because of the focus on Arctic exploration I hadn t read any fiction about the Franklin expedition Knowledge of the disastrous undertaking stuck in my mind from a video I watched a few times throughout grade school and from the recent discoveries of Franklin s ships M Review originally published 19 March 2017 at Falling Letters.At 500 pages lo...Ed O Loughlin covers a lot of cold ground and distant seas in this one both Poles, Tasmania, Shetland, Sweden, Nunavut, Siberia and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich among other places many periods from 1845 to the present, and many genres, historical novel, speculative fiction, missing person mystery, with a dash of magical realism and spy story thrown in At times the narrative disappears like tracks in a snowstorm, and the misdirections are many, like people and objects even islands that Ed O Loughlin covers a lot of cold ground and distant seas in this one both Poles, Tasmania, Shetland, Sweden, Nunavut, Siberia and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich among other places many periods from 1845 to the present, and many genres, historical novel, speculative fiction, missing person mystery, with a dash of magical realism and spy story thrown in At times the narrative disappears like tracks in a snowstorm, and the misdirections are many, like people and objects even islands that loom and vanish in the polar night Mr O Loughlin tells a good story, which can be a disadvantage for the reader just as you re getting into a character and following their progress, they disappear, often for good But following in the tracks of Franklin s last expedition to find the fabled North West Passage, along the Cold War DEW line that was su...

Minds of Winter
  • English
  • 15 July 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 500 pages
  • 1681442450
  • Ed O'Loughlin
  • Minds of Winter