1,172 Days on the Ice: The Arctic Travails of Nansen & Johansen
Print:
- Nansen: The Explorer as Hero, by Roland Huntford
- Farthest North, by Fridjof Nansen
- With Nansen in the North, by Fridjof Johansen
Online:
- “Fridtjof Nansen” – Fram Museum
- “Fridtjof Nansen: Farthest North” – The Mariners’ Museum
- “1,000 Days on the Ice” – National Geographic
Nearly Lost: How the Secrets of Polynesian Navigation were Saved
Print:
- We the Navigators: The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific, by David Lewis
- Vaka Moana, Voyages of the Ancestors: The Discovery and Settlement of the Pacific, by K.R. Howe
- Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass, by Harold Gatty
Online:
- “Polynesian Wayfinding” – Polynesian Voyaging Society
- “Polynesia’s Genius Navigators” – PBS NOVA
A Boatload of Tortoises: The Galapagos Expedition of 1905-1906
Online:
- Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences to the Galapagos islands, 1905-1906 – California Academy of Science
- Galapagos Island Research – California Academy of Science
For Love of Speed: John Stapp, “The Fastest Man on Earth”
Online:
- “The Story of John Paul Stapp ‘The Fastest Man on Earth'” – Nick T. Spark
Cannonball Run 1907: The Paris to Peking Rally
Online:
- “Pekin to Paris: An Account of Prince Borghese’s Journey Across Two Continents in a Motor Car (1908)”, by Luigi Barzini
- 1907 Peking to Paris Image Gallery
- “The 1907 Spyker that Competed in the Peking to Paris Great Race” – Just A Car Guy
- “The Winner of the 1907 Peking to Paris Endurance Race” – Just A Car Guy
- Detail of the Contal Trike – Popular Mechanic Magazine, 1907
- Detail of the Obstacles in the Race – Popular Mechanic Magazine, 1907
CarHunt: The Biggest Game on the North American Continent
Print:
- Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, by Carrie Galbraith, Kevin Evans, John Law
- This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground, by Brian Doherty
Online:
- “Chuck Cirino’s Weird TV – Car Hunt” – Tales of San Francisco Cacophony Society
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon withCasey Selden, John Adams, Kelly Jensen, Chris Carrico, Josh Greenwalt, and John Law. Thank you!
