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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
"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
About the Author
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
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages384
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