The Ends of the Earth: an Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford

 

 

Inspired by the advent of the 2007-08 Fourth International Polar Year, Kolbert (Field Notes from a Catastrophe) and Spufford (I May Be Some Time), present an anthology of writings about the arctic and Antarctic, 

which is actually two books in one. Halfway through, readers can turn the 

book upside down for writings about the opposite end of the earth--a 

clever design for an important work in this time of heightened 

interest in the health of the polar ice caps. The anthology, which runs 

the gamut from journal entries to science fiction, does indeed live up 

to its claim of containing the finest writings on the topic. Included are primary 

source accounts by early explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, John 

Franklin, and Kund Rasmussen, nature writings by Barry Lopez and Gretel 

Ehrlich, excerpts from novels by Jules Verne, Jack London, and H. P. 

Lovecraft, and essays by journalists and scientists. Great reading for 

the armchair adventurer.

 

This book isn't in the library. Ask a Library Staff member how to order it from another library. Here's the information you'll need besides the author and title: Bloomsbury (publisher), 2007, 978-1-59691-443-8.

 


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