Antarctica: Life on the Ice
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Tags: Adventure, Contemporary, Memoir, Travel
ISBN-13:9781932361537
Explore the bottom of the world.
Description
What is it like to live and work in the coldest, harshest climate on Earth? The stories in this book reveal the challenges and rewards of exploring the otherworldly contindent of Antarctica. Through a rich range of wise and funny essays, twenty writers introduce us to a wild cast of characters, share intimate details of daily life on the Ice, take us into a fantastic landscape, and capture the spirit of a fascinating, forbidding land.
Explore places where your footprints will outlive you
Survive a blizzard of historic proportions
Find dinosaur bones while on a hunt for krill
Contemplate the fate of the Adélie penguin
Live through the “day it rained chickens”
Search for meteorites emerging from the ice
Spend your honeymoon working on Antarctica’s only newspaper
Take the dreaded “psych test” all Antarctic workers must endure
Watch the sun rise for the first time in six months at the South Pole...and much more
Extended Copyright Information
Copyright © 2007 Solas House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Previously published by Travelers' Tales.
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About the Author
Susan Fox Rogers is the editor of ten book anthologies including Solo: On Her Own Adventure and Going Alone: Women’s Adventures in the Wild. In the austral summer of 2004-05 she spent six weeks on an NSF grant in McMurdo. From there she traveled to various remote camps and to the South Pole. She lives in the Hudson River Valley and teaches creative writing and First Year Seminar at Bard College.
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In the austral summer of 2005, I made a day trip by helicopter to Robert Falcon Scott’s hut at Cape Evans on Ross Island. This was Scott’s base in 1910 on the journey that ended with his death and the death of four of his crew. The story of this expedition is one of the saddest in Antarctic ...
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