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End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica - Hardcover

Matthiessen, Peter

 
9780792250593: End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0792250591 ISBN 13: 9780792250593
Verlag: National Geographic, 2003

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End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness. Magnificently written, the book evokes an appreciation and sympathy for a region as harsh as it is beautiful.

“Luminous and haunting . . . the contemporary Thoreau.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“[Matthiessen] doesn’t waste words, and in End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica, his homage to the austere splendor of that frozen continent, he hasn’t deployed a single one whose choice I would care to take issue with. . . . Matthiessen writes crusty, chiseled sentences that demand to be read slowly—the perfect prose equivalent of the landscapes he’s describing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Matthiessen and polar landscapes seem perfectly suited. . . . I found myself constantly re-reading sentences or paragraphs to savour all of their rich resonances. . . . Few if any authors on the region have so successfully compressed . . . Antarctic life . . . and I suspect it will become standard reading.”—The Guardian

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Peter Matthiessen (1927–2014) was an American writer and naturalist who famously cofounded The Paris Review as a cover for his work as a CIA agent. He won National Book Awards for The Snow Leopard and Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend, making him the only author to have received the honor in both the nonfiction and fiction categories.

Birgit Freybe Bateman is an award-winning photographer from Höxter, Germany. Her images have appeared in numerous exhibitions, magazines, and books. Some of her credits include Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia and End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica. She lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. To learn more, visit birgitbateman.com.

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Verlag
National Geographic
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0792250591
ISBN 13 
9780792250593
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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