Robert Kloss
In One Note, Gabriel Blackwell asks writers to talk about the book they are currently reading, and why. One Note 006: Robert Kloss, Leonard Guttridge, Ghosts of Cape Sabine.
In One Note, I ask writers for just that: one note, a single paragraph, on what they’re reading right now.
Today’s note comes courtesy of Robert Kloss.
Lately most of my reading has been research for my novel, The Alligators of Abraham. Initially I was concerned with Civil War photographs and battle details, the history of lawn care, the history of the fur trade, and the history of embalming and mummification, but I’ve since begun reading Leonard Guttridge’s Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition about the 19th century Arctic expedition led by Lt. Adolphus Greely that culminated in cannibalism and madness. The story will loosely figure into the third section of AOA so I wanted to study up. Of particular interest with this book are the first person accounts the author is careful to detail, as much of the experience was chronicled in journals and diaries. Here, in their own words, desperate men plot and scheme and lose their minds.
Robert Kloss writes about alligators, fathers, fires. He also blogs at http://plumbblogdotnet.wordpress.com
