Over a decade after her exploration of the Antarctic in Terra Incognita, Sara Wheeler uncovers the beautiful, brutal reality of the Arctic.
Sara Wheeler's books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita- Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, 'I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.' The Magnetic North- Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers- Cherry- A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and Too Close to the Sun- The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton, and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America!. She lives in London.
A wise, provoking and zestful chronicle, poetic, often tragic and
always engaging. Wheeler, a prolific raconteur of distant places,
has created the finest book on the Arctic since Hugh Brody's The
Other Side of Eden
*Sunday Times*
An excellent narrator, intelligent, amusing, poetic and down to
earth
*Literary Review*
Her adventurous spirit, tireless intelligence, and joy shine
through...a rare and precious talent
*Scotsman*
Beautiful and terrifying
*The Times*
Wheeler's book teaches a lot about what is happening in the far
north, which is valuable
*Guardian*
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