I MAY BE SOME TIME: Ice and the English Imagination - Brossura

Spufford, Francis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0312220812 ISBN 13: 9780312220815

Casa editrice: Griffin, 1999

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0312220812
• ISBN 13: 9780312220815
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 394
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile