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Bavarian director Werner Herzog’s Antarctic odyssey Encounters at the End of the World was released in 2008. It is not a work of fiction, with all the inspirational, mythological, and crystallizing power of high art; it is a documentary. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Encounters at the End of the World, James Holbeyfield, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, Werner Herzog | Comments closed

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Sir Vivian Fuchs & Sir Edmund Hillary,
The Crossing of Antarctica

Alex Kurtagić

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Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary
The Crossing of Antarctica: The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955–1958
London: Cassell, 1958

After Ernest Shackleton’s attempt at crossing Antarctica during the Great War, it would be nearly half a century before a new transantarctic bid would be made. Read more …

Published: December 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, Edmund Hillary, exploration, North American New Right, reprints, Vivia Fuchs, white heroism | Comments closed

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Roald Amundsen’s The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910–1912

Alex Kurtagić

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Roald Amundsen
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the Fram, 1910–1912
London: Hurst & Company, 2001
(First Published in 1912 by John Murray)

Having reviewed Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s account of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition, and having over the Yuletide read Scott’s diaries from the latter, I deemed it opportune to read Roald Amundsen’s account of his pioneering journey to the South Pole. Read more …

Published: December 12, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, exploration, manliness, North American New Right, reprints, Roald Amundsen, white heroism | Comments closed

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Shackleton’s Forgotten Men

Alex Kurtagić

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Lennard Bickel
Shackleton’s Forgotten Men:
The Untold Tragedy of the Endurance Epic
London: Pimlico, 2001

The heroic age of Antarctic exploration ended with Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition of 1914–1916. And this, no doubt because of the relatively recent film starring Kenneth Branagh, is nowadays probably the best known of the many incredible adventures experienced by the early Antarctic explorers. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alex Kurtagic, book reviews, British identity, Ernest Shackleton, exploration, Lennard Bickell, North American New Right, reprints, Shackleton’s Forgotten Men, white heroism | Comments closed

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The Worst Journey in the World

Alex Kurtagić

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard, 1886–1959

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
The Worst Journey in the World
London: Pimlico, 2003

I remember watching the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic at some point in the early 1990s and marveling both at its grimness and the sheer Englishness of its sensibilities. Read more …