Called RmagnificentS by the "Sunday Times" (London), this work tells the dramatic story of Denys Finch Hatton, a brilliant and charismatic man with a passion for adventure, whose life was celebrated by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) in her classic memoir, "Out of Africa."
Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station". She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them.
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to travel from the top to the bottom, from the driest ...
The seahorse-shaped island of Evia - Euboia in classical history and Negroponte for many centuries - is the second largest in Greece, yet it is almost completely undiscovered by tourists. Separated from the mainland by only a sliver of sea, Evia has had a turbulent history. Today, it encapsulates the Greece of decades ago - unspoilt and pristine, ...
A biography of famous arctic explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard, whose book about his adventure, WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD, is considered a sterling example of adventure writing. With a 16-page photograph insert. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
The seahorse-shaped island of Evia is the second largest in Greece - and most British visitors have never heard of it. Not so long ago the inhabitants were still walking to town to swap a goat for a pair of trousers, and the question of where a bus ends its journey is still largely contingent upon what takes the driver's fancy. Taking an ...
"Amazingly well up-dated and researched. -- The Times (London) "Cadogan's specialty is uncovering delightful secrets in some of the earth's most traveled spots". -- The Independent "Entertaining companions with sharp insights ... The series has received plaudits worldwide for intelligence, orginality and a slightly irreverent sense of fun. -- ...
A collection of previously unpublished travel writing from women who are members of the Amazonians club for women travel writers. Contributors include writers such as: Julia Blackburn, Robyn Davidson, Jenny Diski, Martha Gellhorn and Katie Hickman.
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of ...
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. There, he first had an affair with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and then - famously - with Karen Blixen, a romance ...
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler uncovers the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic. When she puts up her tent on the top of the Greenland ice sheet, she experiences climate change at the ...
A text by travel writer Sara Wheeler about the summer she spent living in Antarctica, through letters written to Daniel, her 9-year-old godson. Diagrams, maps and illustrated factboxes give readers factual information about Antarctica to back up Sara's story.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2002
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Includes: illustrations, maps. This is an Arc copy, slight lift, small bend corners. Nice clean copy overall. Has a section in the back with notes. The first account of his life. read more
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Winchester, Simon, and Junger, Sebastian, and Murphy, Dervla, and MacArthur, Ellen, and Wheeler, Sara, and Fiennes, Ranulph...
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