Sara Wheeler

Terra Incognita (eBook, ePUB)

Travels in Antarctica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers Program. She spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. "Terra Incognita" is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the people who inhabit this region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is revealed, in all its seductive mystery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781407051826
• Artikelnr.: 39213989

Autorenporträt

Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, 'I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.' The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.

Rezensionen

Antarctica could hope for no better chronicler: spirited, humorous and highly intelligent, she is also a writer of rare talent Observer