Mad, Hopeless & Possible:
Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
In 1914 two groups of explorers set out, separated by a continent but united by one man's vision of 'the last great polar journey'. Sir Ernest Shackleton rated applicants for his expedition as 'Mad, Hopeless & Possible'. This collection weaves together accounts of his Endurance crew with the 'hidden shadow-story' of the Ross Sea Party, his supply team marooned in the white wilderness of Antarctica.
'Siobhan Logan's book places the reader among the stubborn men of Shackleton's 1914 Trans–Antarctic Expedition. This history of polar exploration is at once efficiently informative and dramatically powerful: smooth, economic prose offset against haunting poetic soliloquies. It's as if Logan has pulled desperate men's voices out of sub–zero winds.' Mark Goodwin
published 2011 by original plus
illustrations by Siobhan Logan
signed copies available from author
price: £3.00
ISBN 978-0-9562433-9-3
Firebridge to Skyshore: A Northern Lights Journey
published by original plus
illustrated with original woodcuts by, Dolores Logan.
Price: £8.00
ISBN: 978-0-9546801-7-6
signed copies from Siobhan Logan
A poet's journey to the land of the Northern Lights:
'Siobhan Logan writes remarkably about a remarkable phenomenon, in prose and poetry as luminous as the ionosphere that is the womb for the Aurora Borealis...' Paul Lee
'weaving science, folk myth and daily lives under the Northern Lights, Firebridge to Skyshore builds a language out of colour, taking us beyond the glittering cold of the landscapes into their heart.' D.A. Prince
'a true observer on her travels to the Nord Lys, often straddling an artist's wonder with a scientist's explanation.' Emma Lee