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I may be some time: ice and the English imagination [paperback] SPUFFORD, Francis [Jan 01, 1997]
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"Shot through with crystalline brilliance...If you have any interest in the ethos of extreme travel you won't want to be left behind." --The Washington Post Book World
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"Francis Spufford's account of the early expedition to the Arctic and the Antarctic...is thoughtful, suggestive and oddly fascinating." --Men's Journal
"An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"I May Be Some Time is a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate...breathtaking" --The Boston Globe
"I May Be Some Time is a truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination." --Jan Morris
Francis Spufford, writes for the Guardian,has edited two anthologies and lives in Cambridge, England with his wife and daughter. For this, his first book, he received a Somerset Maughm Award and was namedThe Sunday Times (London) Young Writer of the Year.
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- PublisherFABER AND FABER
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0571179517
- ISBN 13 9780571179510
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages384
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the English imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Conventional histories of polar exploration tend to trace the laborious expeditions across the map, dwelling on the proper techniques of ice navigation and sledge travel, rather than asking what the explorers thought they were doing, or why. This book, in contrast, is about the poles as they have been perceived, dreamed of, even desired, and offers a cultural history of a national obsession with polar explorers and mountaineers. It sets out to show how Scott's death in 1912 was the culmination of a long-running national enchantment with perilous journeys to the ends of the earth. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001625815
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