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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Aston, Felicity.     Subjects     Aston, Felicity -- Travel -- Antarctica.     Women adventurers -- Antarctica.     Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Women scientists -- Biography.     Cross-country skiing -- Antarctica.     Survival -- Antarctica.     Antarctica -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Aston, Felicity.       by title:      Alone in Antarctica ...       by call number:      919.8904 A856a     Search the Web     Aston, Felicity.     Aston, Felicity -- Travel -- Antarctica.     Women adventurers -- Antarctica.     Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Women scientists -- Biography.     Cross-country skiing -- Antarctica.     Survival -- Antarctica.     Antarctica -- Description and travel.       MARC Display

Alone in Antarctica : the first woman to ski solo across the southern ice / Felicity Aston ; with a foreword by Joanna Lumley. by Aston, Felicity. Counterpoint, 2014. Call #: 919.8904 A856a Subjects Aston, Felicity -- Travel -- Antarctica.   Women adventurers -- Antarctica.   Physicists -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Women scientists -- Biography.   Cross-country skiing -- Antarctica.   Survival -- Antarctica.   Antarctica -- Description and travel. ISBN:  9781619023475 (hc.) 1619023474 (hc.) Description:  253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm. Notes:  Subtitle from jacket cover. Contents:  Foreword by Joanna Lumley. Prologue: Alone. Every step -- Paying attention -- LOO-JW -- Forty-six -- Life raft -- Bald-headed men -- Sundogs and haloes -- Skiing in the dark -- Getting out of the tent. Epilogue: Echoes and shades. Summary:  Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history - to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it, too, with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids used by her prededecessors - two Norwegian men - each of whom employed either parasails or kites. Aston's journey across the ice at the bottom of the world asked of her the extremes in terms of mental and physical bravery, as she faced the risks of unseen cracks buried in the snow so large they might engulf her and hypothermia due to brutalizing weather. She had to deal, too, with her emotional vulnerability in face of the constant bombardment of hallucinations brought on by the vast sea of whiteness, the lack of stimulation to her senses as she faced what is tantamount to a form of solitary confinement. Genre:  Travel memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 919.8904 A856a Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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