Ice Diaries - An Antartic Memoir McNeil JeanPaperback / softback
Ice Diaries - An Antartic Memoir McNeil JeanPaperback / softback Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2016, now in paperback.British Canadian…
Specifikacia Ice Diaries - An Antartic Memoir McNeil JeanPaperback / softback
Ice Diaries - An Antartic Memoir McNeil JeanPaperback / softback
Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize and one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2016, now in paperback.British Canadian novelist Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world's most enigmatic continent -- Antarctica. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil's years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard.In the spirit of the diaries of earlier Antarctic explorers, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody's country.
In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the