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The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarcticaby Leslie Caro Roberts
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:More than a distant continent, Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists, and dreamers. The Entire Earth and Sky conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of a continent at the bottom of the world.
When Leslie Carol Roberts went to Antarctica for the first time with Greenpeace, she was hoping to save the world. In the twenty years since then she has shifted to the no less difficult task of saving Antarctica itself, compiling memoirs and stories, learning the biology and geography of the icy land, and documenting her own journey. This book pieces together the tragic and heroic tales of nineteenth-century exploration, interviews with scientists, and the author’s personal observations. The result is a remarkable collage that evokes the beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards of a lifelong engagement with the earth’s last wilderness. A kaleidoscope of legends, stories, field notes, images, reports, history, letters, and research, the book renders an impression, at once vast and microscopic, of the effect of human beings on the land and ice we call Antarctica, and its effect on us. Review:"Antarctica, isolated by a restive sea, filigreed by ice, graced by light and embalmed in darkness, home to the brave and the defiant, has a beauty as ephemeral as an iceberg yet as obdurate as a volcano. The place defies facile description, and puny language scribed by anyone less than a poet simply cannot do it justice. The Entire Earth and Sky is one of a handful of exceptions, as resplendent as sunlight refracted through an icicle and as discomfiting as a plain of sastrugi. Leslie Roberts packed her duffel, her down parka, her bunny boots, her quill, her notebook and headed south. But she also packed her heart, her soul, and her gift. The result is pure art: honest, true to place, original, and lovely."-David G. Campbell, author of The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica (David G. Campbell, Dec 6 2007 )Review:"Roberts shows a poets attention to detail in her descriptions of the men who worked the southern seas but have been eclipsed by their famous leaders. Roberts tells many forgotten stories of Antarctica in an engaging style that will appeal to anyone with an interest in cold places, travel adventures, and overlooked history."-Colleen Mondor, Booklist (Colleen Mondor, Booklist, Sep 15 2008 )About the AuthorLeslie Carol Roberts, a Fulbright Fellow at Gateway Antarctica New Zealand, teaches in the MFA programs in writing and graduate design at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has written hundreds of articles and essays for magazines, newspapers, and literary journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Sydney Morning Herald. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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