Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1139424084
Antarctica in Fiction
Elizabeth Leane
Antarctica In Fiction
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Antarctica in Fiction
Elizabeth Leane
Author : Elizabeth Leane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107020825
Antarctica in Fiction by Elizabeth Leane Pdf
This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Antarctica
Kim Stanley Robinson
Author : Kim Stanley Robinson
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553574029
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson Pdf
The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. “Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole. Praise for Antarctica “Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.”—People “[Antarctica] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world, Antarctica—both the book and the continent—will become part of the reader's interior landscape.”—The Washington Post Book World “The epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn’t give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here.”—Interzone “Antarctica will take your breath away.”—Associated Press “A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.”—Publishers Weekly “Passionate, informed...vastly entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews “Robinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee.”—The New York Times Book Review
Heller's Tale
David Pablo Cohn
Author : David Pablo Cohn
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534784713
Heller's Tale by David Pablo Cohn Pdf
Two miles up, in the heart of an ice desert a thousand miles wide, it's now or never. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more like a moon base than anything on earth, but buried deep in the ice beneath it is an even more distant and foreboding place. Andrew Heller has been never short on stories of inadvisable adventure, and tonight he has one last chance to come home with the story of a lifetime - or die trying. "An amazing bit of GOOD South Pole fiction. If you've been there, or even THOUGHT about being there, you'll recognize a thing or two, a few of the places, perhaps some of the characters..." - Bill Spindler, South Pole Historian, www.southpolestation.com About the author: David Pablo Cohn first served with the US Antarctic Program at the South Pole Station in 2010. His fiction has drawn broad praise from armchair adventurers and seasoned Antarctic veterans alike for its gripping detailed and accurate depictions of life "on the Ice."
Secret Under Antarctica
Gordon R Dickson
Author : Gordon R Dickson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575112292
Secret Under Antarctica by Gordon R Dickson Pdf
Dive into adventure in the last unknown territory on Earth - the sea. Join Robby Hoenig and a cast of characters as unusual as any ever met on a distant planet . . . In the second Robby Hoenig adventure, Secret Under Antarctica, a scientific expedition becomes a race to stop a terrorist plot for world-wide disaster, buried beneath the ice of the South Pole . . . Gordon R. Dickson's Robby Hoenig adventures are timeless young adult stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island.
An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields)
Jules Verne
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Mondial
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781595690548
An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) by Jules Verne Pdf
In the year 1839, Mr. Jeorling, whose geological and mineralogical research have led him to the Kerguelen sub-Antarctic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, sets sail on the "Halbrane", whose captain Len Guy is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym". --- In that narrative, Poe recounts the adventures of Len Guy's brother William Guy who as captain of the "Jane" was persuaded by Arthur Gordon Pym to direct an expedition to the Antarctic. The "Jane" vanished on this voyage, though Pym was still able to pass along his diary to Edgar Allen Poe. --- Increasingly persuaded of the truthfulness of the tale, Mr. Jeorling encourages Captain Len Guy to pursue his brother - whom they believe may still be alive - into the Antarctic. --- Aside from the natural perils of the ocean, they must also face down a mutiny of the sailors on the "Halbrane".
Chasing the Light
Jesse Blackadder
Author : Jesse Blackadder
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781743097823
Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder Pdf
A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. It's the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race for the mysterious continent between Norwegian and British-Australian interests is in full swing. Aboard a ship setting sail from Cape town carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen are three women: Lillemor Rachlew, who tricked her way on to the ship and will stop at nothing to be the first woman to land on Antarctica; Mathilde Wegger, a grieving widow who's been forced to join the trip by her calculating parents-in-law; and Lars's wife, Ingrid Christensen, who has longed to travel to Antarctica since she was a girl and has made a daunting bargain with Lars to convince him to take her. Loyalties shift and melt and conflicts increase as they pass through the Southern Ocean and reach the whaling grounds. None of the women is prepared for the reality of meeting the whaling fleet and experiencing firsthand the brutality of the icy world. As they head for the continent itself, the race is on for the first woman to land on Antarctica. None of them expect the outcome and none of them know how they will be changed by their arrival. Based on the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, Jesse Blackadder has captured the drama, danger and magnetic pull of exploring uncharted places in our world and our minds.
South Pole Station
Ashley Shelby
Author : Ashley Shelby
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250112859
South Pole Station by Ashley Shelby Pdf
Winner of the Lascaux Prize in Fiction A warmhearted comedy of errors set in the world’s harshest place, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to band together when everything around you falls apart. Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks to you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are some of the questions that determine if you have what it takes to survive at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is abnormal enough for Polar life. Cooper’s not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she’s adrift at thirty and—despite her early promise as a painter—on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation’s Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica, where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own. The only thing the Polies have in common is the conviction that they don’t belong anywhere else. Then a fringe scientist arrives, claiming climate change is a hoax. His presence will rattle this already-imbalanced community, bringing Cooper and the Polies to the center of a global controversy and threatening the ancient ice chip they call home.
An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Lumbreras Classics Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985940424
An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne by Jules Verne Pdf
It is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.
Antarctica
Claire Keegan
Author : Claire Keegan
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802189714
Antarctica by Claire Keegan Pdf
This prize-winning debut collection of 15 stories by the acclaimed Irish author are “among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English” (The Observer). The compassionate, witty, and unsettling short stories collected here announced Claire Keegan as one of Ireland’s most exciting and versatile new talents and earned comparison to the works of Joyce Carol Oates, Alison Lurie, Raymond Carver, and others. From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws readers into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. In “Love in the Tall Grass,” Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In “Passport Soup,” Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Throughout the collection, Keegan’s characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, Antarctica is a rare and arresting debut. “These stories are diamonds.” —Emily Robichaud, Esquire “A keen and unflinching observer, [Keegan] will appeal to fans of Roddy Doyle.” —Publishers Weekly “Readers should look forward to seeing her next book.” —Booklist
The Ice
Louis Charbonneau
Author : Louis Charbonneau
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1556111770
The Ice by Louis Charbonneau Pdf
Kathy McNeely, a marine biologist and environmentalist, and a Russian scientist investigate a mysterious oil spill in pristine Antarctica despite storms, tourists, a reporter, and a series of so-called accidents at various research stations
The Wide White Page
Bill Manhire
Author : Bill Manhire
Publisher : Victoria University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0864734859
The Wide White Page by Bill Manhire Pdf
The wide white page spans eight centuries of writing - from Dante's epic account of Ulysses's last southbound ocean journey to Michael Chabon's writing of a WWII US army base on the ice, in Kavalier and Clay. There is fiction and poetry from nearly a dozen different countries, and genres range from Coleridge's Rime of the ancient mariner, via H.P. Lovecraft's Gothic fantasy and Kim Stanley Robinson future fiction, to the surreal comedy of Monty Python's Scott of the Sahara." --book jacket.
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica
John Calvin Batchelor
Author : John Calvin Batchelor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015008261987
The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica by John Calvin Batchelor Pdf
Novel.
An Antarctic Mystery Or the Sphinx of the Ice Fields
Jules Verne
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1974567710
An Antarctic Mystery Or the Sphinx of the Ice Fields by Jules Verne Pdf
A wonderful coming together of two writers who wrote their books more than half a century apart. Neither of them had ever visited the remote islands they were writing about yet they provided inspiration for a couple of exciting adventure tales.In 1838, Edgar Allan Poe published The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It was the only complete novel published by the American author. It was the story of a young boy who stows away on board a whaling ship and it goes on to relate the events that follow. The novel ends a trifle abruptly, with the hero and his friend Dirk Peters deciding to journey to the South Pole.In 1897, the French writer Jules Verne, who was compiling his Voyages Extraodinaires (a series of 54 books that combined science and literature) took up the threads of Arthur Gordon Pym's story and wrote a two volume novel called An Antarctic Mystery (Le Sphinx des Glaces in French).Set eleven years after Poe leaves Pym on his way to Antarctica, the book opens with a description of a wealthy American student Jeorling, who is looking for a crew and a ship to take him back to the US after a long sojourn in the Kerguelen Islands in the extreme south of the Indian Ocean. These islands, one of the most remote places on earth, are home to rare flora and fauna, the subject of Jeorling's study. The captain of the ship turns out to be the brother of William Guy, who had captained the Jane, the ship which carried Pym and Dirk Peters to Antarctica and was presumably lost there. A mysterious sailor joins the crew and he seems over-eager to be on board. Another sailor named Hunt is also on board and there is something strange about him too. The ship reaches the island of Tsalal which was destroyed by an earthquake recently. Here they find remains of people who seemed to have been murdered before the earthquake. They also find Pym's dog Tiger's collar, but there is no sign of either Pym or the dog. The rest of the tale races towards an exciting climax which explains the bizarre events.This relatively short novel was written at a time when practically nothing was known about Antarctica. It was translated into English by Frances (Cashel) Hoey an Irish novelist, journalist and translator who translated more than 27 novels from Italian and French into English...
An Antarctic Mystery
Jules Verne
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547045595
An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne Pdf
"An Antarctic Mystery" is a novel by Jules Verne, written in response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." The book follows the adventures of a wealthy American Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and decided to find a passage back to the United States. So, he made a journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane, which was full of unexpected events, such as hitting on an iceberg and discovering a dead body there.
