Sara Wheeler

Broschiertes Buch

Terra Incognita

Travels in Antarctica

Beschreibung

The author 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. This title presents 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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 632502
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9780099731818
• ISBN-10: 0099731819
• Artikelnr.: 20972283

Rezensionen

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