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Author
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 315 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full measure of the Arctic: at once the most pristine place...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 281 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the steps of author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird and novelist Catherine Hubback who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa - still then the land of the pioneer. There, concluded in his obituary in The Times, 'No one who ever met him, whether man or woman, old or young, white or black, failed to come under his spell ... He was different from everyone else. He...
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