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I May be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

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 | #780289 in Books |  2003-04-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.76 x1.02 x4.96l,.58 | File type: PDF | 416 pages

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Different perspective on polar exploration|By James C. Casterline|This book sounded more interesting in a bibliography in another book I read about arctic life and exploration than it proved to be. I found the honesty with which some exploration failures were treated refreshing when it comes to heroic failures in the Scott and Franklin expeditions. On the other hand I wasn't at| |“. . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking.” ―"The Boston Globe" “An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history.” ―T"he Philadelphia Inquirer" “Thoughtful, suggestive and o

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the English imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Conventional histories of polar exploration tend to trace the laborious expeditions across the map, dwelling on the proper techniques of ice navigation and sledge travel, rather than asking what the explorers thought they were doing, or why. This book, in contrast, is...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.I May be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination   |  Francis Spufford.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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