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I MAY BE SOME TIME: Ice and the English Imagination - Softcover

Spufford, Francis

 
9780312220815: I MAY BE SOME TIME: Ice and the English Imagination
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0312220812 ISBN 13: 9780312220815
Verlag: Griffin, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

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 polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as they headed toward destinies like Terra Nova. Serving up a heady brew of Captain Perry, Jane Eyre, gastronomic obsessions with iced desserts, and the daily lives of Eskimos, Spufford treats the reader to one of the most satisfying and imaginative contemporary works dealing with exploration and human need.

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Verlag
Griffin
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0312220812
ISBN 13 
9780312220815
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
394
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