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Sara Wheeler
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020 With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels…
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Christiane Ritter
In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She…
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar
In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North…
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Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America…
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…
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An elegant travel writer discovers Chile, the country squeezed in between a vast ocean and running along the longest mountain range on Earth.
The adventurer immortalized in Out of Africa –Cover.
Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar
Presents a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. The author tracks…
In a beguiling tale of polar adventure, readers gain a visceral understanding of the mysterious power the poles have exerted in the human imagination, and the desolate beauty that resides…
Wheeler’s Cherry is the first biography of the man who shaped the myth of Robert Falcon Scott, written with unrestricted access to his papers and the full cooperation of his…
A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, this text reveals the heart of…
Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America!: second acts in a New World –T.p. verso.
Apsley Cherry Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott’s final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the…
The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. This title…
Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers
In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with…
The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.
A look at Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan.
Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain –T.p. verso.
Willa Cather
Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim…
Paula McLain
An account of the author’s six-month journey from one end of Chile to the other. Her odyssey included Christmas Day spent with a llama sandwich on the Tropic of Capricorn…
Beryl Markham
Originally published in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Published in 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux –Copyright page.
This is a subject that is as hot as a snake in a wagon rut, offering as it does huge potentiality in the field of computer programming.
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Sara Michas-Martin
Gray Matter: 1. the material of the brain. 2. an expression naming an idea or situation held in shadow. This book tangles with the unknown, but also celebrates the seductive…
