[PDF.96hv] I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

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 | #167039 in Books |  1999-07-30 |  1999-07-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.81 x5.50l,.98 | File type: PDF | 388 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Different perspective on polar exploration|By James C. Casterline|This book sounded more interesting in a bibliography in another book I read about arctic life and exploration than it proved to be. I found the honesty with which some exploration failures were treated refreshing when it comes to heroic failures in the Scott and Franklin expeditions. On the other hand I wasn't at| ||“. . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking.” ―The Boston Globe|“An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history.” ―The Philadelphia Inquirer|“Thoughtful, sugge

Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of po...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination   |  Francis Spufford. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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