The White: Last days in the Antarctic journeys - Couverture rigide

Caesar, Adrian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333905725 ISBN 13 : 9780333905722

Editeur : Macmillan, 2001

Synopsis

Last days in the Antarctic journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913It is 1912, the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Scott's journey has ended. Mawson's is just beginning. Adrian Caesar's stunning stroke of imaginative re-creation transports us to the last days of those perilous expeditions in the heart of the white continent.Sweeping through deaths and disasters with the pace and inevitability of a thriller, The White inexorably lays bare the forces that drove these two adventurers, the values that inspired them, and the remorseless obsession that dominated them.'Adrian Caesar's chilling prose transported me right back into the heart of Antarctica. This is a magnificent retelling of those two fateful expeditions of 1912' - Ranulph Fiennes'This imagined recreation of the two most unforgettable Antarctic disasters tells brutal stories, but manages to do so with great tenderness and grace. Adrian Caesar's literary high-wire act works wonderfully well, adding a vivid humanity to landscapes scattered only with stiffly-written memoirs and black, ice-cold memorials.' - Simon Winchester

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Adrian Caesar was born near Manchester, and has lived in Australia since 1982. He is Associate Professor of English at the University College of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of several books of literary and cultural criticism and two books of poems.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333905725
• ISBN 13: 9780333905722
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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