Scott's Last Biscuit: The Literature of Polar TravelSignal Books Limited, 2006 - 251 páginas "Thematically arranged, Scott's Last Biscuit considers the morbid fascination of expeditions that go horribly wrong and the even greater interest attached to those that are rescued at the last minute, paying particular attention to the impulse to find and even exhume long-lost travellers. Looking at risks ranging from frostbite and polar bears to starvation, cannibalism and insanity, it also analyses the enduring appeal of romanticized polar landscapes, the relationship between nationhood and exploration and literary approaches to polar travel from Winnie the Pooh to Frankenstein." "Sarah Moss considers the representation of indigenous communities as well as women's writing about the far north. She discusses Jenny Darlington's unjustly neglected American 1950s autobiography, My Antarctic Honeymoon ("for protection against the polar winds I applied lipstick"), Letitia Hargraves' moving and likeable journal of life as the wife of a Hudson's Bay Company factor in the early nineteenth century, and Isobel Hutchinson's solitary travels around Greenland in the 1930s as a botanist for Kew Gardens."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Making a Home | 29 |
Hans Egedes Greenland | 42 |
The Long Dark Night | 57 |
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