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I May Be Some Time
Ice and the English Imagination
Taschenbuch von Francis Spufford
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Francis Spufford
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Different History for the Poles * The Sublime * News from Nowhere * Damn the North Pole * The Powers of Frost and Air * Lady Jane's Lament * Relics in the Snow * Imagining Eskimos * Comfortable Barbarians * I Have Always Taken My Place, Haven't I?

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Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780312220815
ISBN-10: 0312220812
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Spufford, Francis
Redaktion: Flamini, Michael
Hersteller: St. Martin's Griffin
Maße: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Francis Spufford
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1999
Gewicht: 0,494 kg
Artikel-ID: 106797656
Über den Autor
Francis Spufford
Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Different History for the Poles * The Sublime * News from Nowhere * Damn the North Pole * The Powers of Frost and Air * Lady Jane's Lament * Relics in the Snow * Imagining Eskimos * Comfortable Barbarians * I Have Always Taken My Place, Haven't I?

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780312220815
ISBN-10: 0312220812
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Spufford, Francis
Redaktion: Flamini, Michael
Hersteller: St. Martin's Griffin
Maße: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Francis Spufford
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.1999
Gewicht: 0,494 kg
Artikel-ID: 106797656
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