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THE FROZEN SHIP
The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
by
SARAH MOSS
Książka używana, w języku angielskim
Stan książki: db+ (mała dedykacja na 1 stronie)
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 244
Rok wydania: 2006
“The Frozen Ship is a rich and frequently startling work of literary scholarship that makes straight for the Terra Incognita of our cultural landscape. It's filled with fascinating material, enough to provide intriguing table talk to last a polar winter.”
John Geiger, author of Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
“This is a marvelous book, a story about stories whose meanings are wonderfully rendered by Sarah Moss. They take us to the heart of darkness in places as silent as light, and range from trauma testimony to travelogue, holding us captive like the ice of the Arctic and Antarctic.”
J. Edward Chamberlin, author of Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations
“Sarah Moss has written a compelling account of the hold which polar exploration has had over the imagination, and she gives a very vivid picture of what life was like on a polar ship or in a tent, or trekking across frozen wastes. The triumph of The Frozen Ship is that it turns our attention to the physical and mental experience of attempting to reach the poles.”
Kate Flint, author of The Victorians and the Visual Imagination
Arctic and Antarctic travelers and their stories have seized the popular imagination for centuries. Emphasizing themes of endurance, greed, obsession, and self-sacrifice, tales from the poles are testimony to both human curiosity and ambition and the often fatal attraction of alien landscapes. Some explorers, like Ernest Shackleton, Richard Byrd, and Roald Amundsen, have become iconic figures, while others, as famous in their day, have fallen into obscurity.
Polar expeditions have spawned a literature with its own history and style. The Frozen Ship is a thorough and thought-provoking examination of the most influential, popular, and intriguing accounts of journeys into the eternal ice, from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to Robert Falcon Scott’s meticulous account of his own dying, and from the tales of Nansen, Franklin, Parry, and Shackleton to the journals of little-known explorers, missionaries, and archaeologists from Europe and North America. The Frozen Ship considers the morbid fascination of expeditions that went horribly wrong and the even greater interest attached to those that were rescued at the last minute, and pays particular attention to the strange desire to find and even exhume long-lost travelers. Looking at risks ranging from frostbite and polar bears to starvation and cannibalism, it also reflects on the enduring appeal of romanticized frozen landscapes, the link between national identity and planting flags in the ice, the descriptions of indigenous communities and forgotten stories of women at the poles, as well as purely imaginary approaches to polar travel from Frankenstein to Winnie the Pooh.
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