SARA WHEELER

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a complex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery.

After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers Program. She spent seven months on the continent, travelling from the fabled Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole itself, the remoter reaches of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the balmy Antarctic Peninsula. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions. Through Sara Wheeler, the Antarctic is revealed, in all its seductive mystery.

A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides a Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others a Wheeler travels the length and breadth of Russia to make connections between then and now. On the Trans-Siberian railway, at sail on the Black Sea, or while watching television with her hosts in Soviet apartment blocks, Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news a a Russia of humanity and daily struggles.At a time of deteriorating relations between Russia and the West, Wheeler gives a voice to the ordinary people of Russia and discovers how the writers of the past continue to represent their country today.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) fue uno de los miembros más jóvenes de la última expedición polar del Capitán Scott.Esta es la dramática biografía de un hombre que sobrevivió a las duras y traicioneras condiciones de la Antártida, luchando contra la depresión, el fracaso y la desesperación, y con la obsesión de la remota posibilidad de haber salvado a Scott y a sus compañeros.Esta es la primera biografía escrita sobre el explorador. Sara Wheeler ha tenido acceso a todo su legado, reconsttruyendo los hechos y los personajes que los protagonizaron. Una labor impecablr que ha dado como resultado una obra que sacude al lector.

Britain s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure from the Antarctic to Zanzibar