I May Be Some Time - Softcover

Spufford, Francis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571218652 ISBN 13: 9780571218653

Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2003

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". . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking." -"The Boston Globe" "An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history." -T"he Philadelphia Inquirer" "Thoughtful, suggestive and oddly fascinating." -"Men's Journal" 0;. . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking.1; 2;"The Boston Globe" 0;An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history.1; 2;T"he Philadelphia Inquirer" 0;Thoughtful, suggestive and oddly fascinating.1; 2;"Men's Journal" " . . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking." -- "The Boston Globe" " An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history." -- T"he Philadelphia Inquirer" " Thoughtful, suggestive and oddly fascinating." -- "Men's Journal" ." . . a high-cultural history, both passionate and intricate . . . Breathtaking." --"The Boston Globe" "An engaging, elegant, often majestic work of cultural history." --T"he Philadelphia Inquirer" "Thoughtful, suggestive and oddly fascinating." --"Men's Journal"

Reseña del editor:

I May Be Some Time is a richly engrossing cultural history of our obsession with ice, Eskimos and polar exploration.

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Despite wars and social change, despite recent debunking, it is still there. Everyone remembers the doomed explorers' last words - 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time' - and history is what you can remember.

Conventional histories of polar exploration trace the laborious expeditions across the map, dwelling on the proper techniques of ice-navigation and sledge-travel. But we rarely ask what the explorers thought they were doing, or why they did these insane things.

I May Be Some Time is about the poles as they have been perceived, dreamed, even desired. It explores the myth as myth, showing how Scott's death was the culmination to a long-running national enchantment with perilous journeys to the ends of the earth.

'The thrills of desolation, of icy beauty, of challenge, of human courage, of comradeship . . . I May Be Some Time is a truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times

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• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571218652
• ISBN 13: 9780571218653
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416