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Polar regions.
Arctic regions.
Antarctica.
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Polar regions.
Arctic regions.
Antarctica.
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The
ends
of the
earth
: an
anthology
of the
finest
writing
on the
Arctic
and the
Antarctic
.
Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007.
Call #:
809.933298 E56
Subjects
Polar regions.
Arctic
regions.
Antarctica.
ISBN:
1596914432
9781596914438
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Description:
2 v. in 1 : maps ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Works bound back-to-back and inverted; titles transcribed from individual title pages.
Contents:
The
Arctic
/ edited by Elizabeth Kolbert -- The
Antarctic
/ edited by Francis Spufford.
v. 1. The
Arctic
. The extreme misery of the whole party / John Franklin -- The return of light / Elisha Kent Kane -- Murder in the
Arctic
? / Chauncey Loomis -- See the Esquimaux / Andrea Barrett -- Mount Hatteras / Jules Verne -- The winter night / Fridtjof Nansen -- Andrée's second diary / Salomon August Andrée -- We reach the Pole / Robert Peary -- Kasiagsak, the great liar / Hinrich Rink -- Songs of the Inuit / Knud Rasmussen -- The Garden of Eden / Rockwell Kent -- Kabloona / Gontran de Poncins -- A Greenland Christmas / Tété-Michel Kpomassie -- In a far country / Jack London -- Land ho! / Valerian Albanov -- Icelandic pioneer / Halldór Laxness -- The land, breathing / Barry Lopez -- Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich -- Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone -- Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert.
v. 2. The
Antarctic
. Into the night / Frederick A. Cook -- Landfall / Louis Bernacchi -- Sledge dogs and Englishmen / Edward Wilson -- Farthest south / Ernest Shackleton -- Lt. Shirase's calling card / Nobu Shirase -- The winter journey / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- Topsy-turvy / Roald Amundsen -- Tragedy all along the line / Robert Falcon Scott -- Scott dies / Francis Spufford -- Mawson lives / Douglas Mawson -- The blow / Richard Byrd -- The blasphemous city / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sea daddy, Stormalong John and Minute maid / John Langone -- White lanterns / Diane Ackerman -- Particles / Bill Green -- Cabin 532 / Jenny Diski -- Hey, woo / Sara Wheeler -- Blue collar / Nicholas Johnson -- In the footsteps of Amundsen, 2016 / Kim Stanley Robinson.
Summary:
A literary
anthology
explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the
Arctic
and
Antarctic
in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature
writing
, and fiction.
Other authors:
Kolbert, Elizabeth.
Spufford, Francis, 1964-
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