Terra Incognita
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407051826
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Terra Incognita

Travels in Antarctica

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1 Aug 2011
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3 Oct 1997
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A modern classic on exploring and understanding the most uncharted place on our planet.


A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet.

Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is revealed, in all its seductive mystery.

'Antarctica could hope for no better chronicler: spirited, humorous and highly intelligent, she is also a writer of rare talent' Observer
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781407051826
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Sara Wheeler

Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.’ The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.

Also by Sara Wheeler

Cherry
The Magnetic North
Mud and Stars
O My America!
Access All Areas
Too Close To The Sun
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Praise for Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita deserves to be a bestseller...a wonderful book and terrific corrective to the polar bulldust periodically emitted by Sir Ralph Wotsisname and others of his ilk

Daily Telegraph

Antarctica could hope for no better chronicler: spirited, humorous and highly intelligent, she is also a writer of rare talent

Observer

Every phrase, every observation twitches with life; every colour seems her own. Forget Antarctica, the mind is a big place, too. I found myself falling for this writer's strong, incisive wisdom even more than the ice sheet and penguins

Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday

Her book is an impressive achievement, one genuinely brushed by the ghosts of the past

Beryl Bainbridge, Literary Review

I cannot believe that anything better will ever be written about Antarctica

Geoffrey Moorhouse, Daily Telegraph

Penetrating, vivacious and often amusing, Wheeler's record has a sharp authenticity

The Times

She writes with a consistent wry wit... she never lacks empathy, compassion or generosity for people whose values, background and gender were the polar opposite of hers...What she has done could not be done better

Independent