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Book Synopsis Antarctica in Fiction by : Elizabeth Leane
Download or read book Antarctica in Fiction written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.
Book Synopsis Antarctica by : Kim Stanley Robinson
Download or read book Antarctica written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel of the near future, the icy continent will become a battleground between those who seek its natural treasures, and those who would keep this wild land untouched--no matter what the cost. "Robinson's most perfect big novel yet."--"The Washington Post."
Book Synopsis Antarctica in Fiction by : Elizabeth Leane
Download or read book Antarctica in Fiction written by Elizabeth Leane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heller's Tale written by David Pablo Cohn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two miles up, in the heart of an ice desert a thousand miles wide, it's now or never. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is more like a moon base than anything on earth, but buried deep in the ice beneath it is an even more distant and foreboding place. Andrew Heller has been never short on stories of inadvisable adventure, and tonight he has one last chance to come home with the story of a lifetime - or die trying. "An amazing bit of GOOD South Pole fiction. If you've been there, or even THOUGHT about being there, you'll recognize a thing or two, a few of the places, perhaps some of the characters..." - Bill Spindler, South Pole Historian, www.southpolestation.com About the author: David Pablo Cohn first served with the US Antarctic Program at the South Pole Station in 2010. His fiction has drawn broad praise from armchair adventurers and seasoned Antarctic veterans alike for its gripping detailed and accurate depictions of life "on the Ice."
Book Synopsis Antarctica by : Kim Stanley Robinson
Download or read book Antarctica written by Kim Stanley Robinson and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1999-07-06 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel. “Antarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.”—Locus It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers. Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole. Praise for Antarctica “Forbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air.”—People “[Antarctica] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world, Antarctica—both the book and the continent—will become part of the reader's interior landscape.”—The Washington Post Book World “The epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didn’t give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here.”—Interzone “Antarctica will take your breath away.”—Associated Press “A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.”—Publishers Weekly “Passionate, informed...vastly entertaining.”—Kirkus Reviews “Robinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee.”—The New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis South Pole Station by : Ashley Shelby
Download or read book South Pole Station written by Ashley Shelby and published by Picador. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling has just answered five hundred of them. Her results indicate she is strange enough for Polar life. Cooper's not sure if this is an achievement, but she knows she has nothing to lose. Unmoored by a recent family tragedy, she's adrift at thirty and--despite her early promise as a painter--on the verge of sinking her career. So she accepts her place in the National Science Foundation's Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica--where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own.A winning comedy of errors set in the world's harshest place, Ashley Shelby's South Pole Station is a wry and witty debut novel about the courage it takes to come together, even as everything around you falls apart.* For readers of dysfunctional family dramas such as Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest (but in Antarctica, with beards)
Download or read book Antarctica written by Claire Keegan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prize-winning debut collection of 15 stories by the acclaimed Irish author are “among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English” (The Observer). The compassionate, witty, and unsettling short stories collected here announced Claire Keegan as one of Ireland’s most exciting and versatile new talents and earned comparison to the works of Joyce Carol Oates, Alison Lurie, Raymond Carver, and others. From the titular story about a married woman who takes a trip to the city with a single purpose in mind—to sleep with another man—Antarctica draws readers into a world of obsession, betrayal, and fragile relationships. In “Love in the Tall Grass,” Cordelia wakes on the last day of the twentieth century and sets off along the coast road to keep a date, with her lover, that has been nine years in the waiting. In “Passport Soup,” Frank Corso mourns the curious disappearance of his nine-year-old daughter and tries desperately to reach out to his shattered wife who has gone mad with grief. Throughout the collection, Keegan’s characters inhabit a world where dreams, memory, and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and recipient of the prestigious Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the William Trevor Prize, Antarctica is a rare and arresting debut. “These stories are diamonds.” —Emily Robichaud, Esquire “A keen and unflinching observer, [Keegan] will appeal to fans of Roddy Doyle.” —Publishers Weekly “Readers should look forward to seeing her next book.” —Booklist
Book Synopsis The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica by : John Calvin Batchelor
Download or read book The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica written by John Calvin Batchelor and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel.
Book Synopsis The Big Bang Symphony by : Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Download or read book The Big Bang Symphony written by Lucy Jane Bledsoe and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season. The place is so raw and pure, all seal hide and crystalline iceberg. The fishbowl communities at McMurdo Station, South Pole Station, and in the remote field camps intensify relationships, jack all emotion up to a 10. The trick is to get what you need and then get out fast. At least that’s how thirty-year-old Rosie Moore views it as she flies in for her third season on the Ice. She plans to avoid all entanglements, romantic and otherwise, and do her work as a galley cook. But when her flight crash-lands, so do all her plans. Mikala Wilbo, a brilliant young composer whose heart—and music—have been frozen since the death of her partner, is also on that flight. She has come to the Ice as an artist-in-residence, to write music, but also to secretly check out the astrophysicist father she has never met. Arriving a few weeks later, Alice Neilson, a graduate student in geology who thinks in charts and equations, is thrilled to leave her dependent mother and begin her career at last. But from the start she is aware that her post-doc advisor, with whom she will work in Antarctica, expects much more from their relationship. As the three women become increasingly involved in each other’s lives, they find themselves deeply transformed by their time on the Ice. Each falls in love. Each faces challenges she never thought she would meet. And ultimately, each finds redemption in a depth and quality of friendship that only the harsh beauty of Antarctica can engender. Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards Finalist, Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, awarded by the Publishing Triangle Finalist, Northern California Independent Booksellers Association Honorable Mention, Foreword Magazine’s Gay/Lesbian Fiction Book of the Year Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Association
Book Synopsis An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne by : Jules Verne
Download or read book An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne written by Jules Verne and published by Lumbreras Classics Books. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.
Book Synopsis Chasing the Light by : Jesse Blackadder
Download or read book Chasing the Light written by Jesse Blackadder and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. A fictional recounting of the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, and her extraordinary fight to get there. It's the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race for the mysterious continent between Norwegian and British-Australian interests is in full swing. Aboard a ship setting sail from Cape town carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate Lars Christensen are three women: Lillemor Rachlew, who tricked her way on to the ship and will stop at nothing to be the first woman to land on Antarctica; Mathilde Wegger, a grieving widow who's been forced to join the trip by her calculating parents-in-law; and Lars's wife, Ingrid Christensen, who has longed to travel to Antarctica since she was a girl and has made a daunting bargain with Lars to convince him to take her. Loyalties shift and melt and conflicts increase as they pass through the Southern Ocean and reach the whaling grounds. None of the women is prepared for the reality of meeting the whaling fleet and experiencing firsthand the brutality of the icy world. As they head for the continent itself, the race is on for the first woman to land on Antarctica. None of them expect the outcome and none of them know how they will be changed by their arrival. Based on the little-known true story of the first woman to ever set foot on Antarctica, Jesse Blackadder has captured the drama, danger and magnetic pull of exploring uncharted places in our world and our minds.
Book Synopsis Secret Under Antarctica by : Gordon R Dickson
Download or read book Secret Under Antarctica written by Gordon R Dickson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into adventure in the last unknown territory on Earth - the sea. Join Robby Hoenig and a cast of characters as unusual as any ever met on a distant planet . . . In the second Robby Hoenig adventure, Secret Under Antarctica, a scientific expedition becomes a race to stop a terrorist plot for world-wide disaster, buried beneath the ice of the South Pole . . . Gordon R. Dickson's Robby Hoenig adventures are timeless young adult stories in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke's Dolphin Island.
Book Synopsis An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) by : Jules Verne
Download or read book An Antarctic Mystery (The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) written by Jules Verne and published by Mondial. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the year 1839, Mr. Jeorling, whose geological and mineralogical research have led him to the Kerguelen sub-Antarctic archipelago in the Indian Ocean, sets sail on the "Halbrane", whose captain Len Guy is obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe's novel "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym". --- In that narrative, Poe recounts the adventures of Len Guy's brother William Guy who as captain of the "Jane" was persuaded by Arthur Gordon Pym to direct an expedition to the Antarctic. The "Jane" vanished on this voyage, though Pym was still able to pass along his diary to Edgar Allen Poe. --- Increasingly persuaded of the truthfulness of the tale, Mr. Jeorling encourages Captain Len Guy to pursue his brother - whom they believe may still be alive - into the Antarctic. --- Aside from the natural perils of the ocean, they must also face down a mutiny of the sailors on the "Halbrane".
Download or read book White Continent written by David Poyer and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NOVEL OF RELENTLESS SUSPENSEON EARTH'S FINAL FRONTIERFor thirty years diehard David Poyer fans searched used bookstores for the few tattered copies surviving of WHITE CONTINENT. This sprawling first novel reads like a remix of ATLAS SHRUGGED and THE DOGS OF WAR as retold by Robert Heinlein. It follows a team of adventurers, mercenaries, outcasts, and entrepreneurs in a daring coup to take over the last unclaimed land on earth; the terrifyingly hostile continent of Antarctica. Using advanced technology to survive, and surplus weaponry to defend their new possession, they now must hold this new state against all comers . . . and build a Utopian society unlike any that exists elsewhere on earth. This new edition cuts 10,000 words from the original text, reading daster and more smoothly. The geopolitical scene has changed greatly since WHITE CONTINENT was written. But the book is still prescient, in its foreshadowing of today's conflicting claims and impending resource wars in places like the Arctic and the China Sea. Fans of Poyer's later books will notice hints of themes he's still exploring, such as the search for authentic authority, conflicted heroes, and deeply-layered, multidimensional characters who think as well as act.
Book Synopsis An Antarctic Mystery; Or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields by : Jules Verne
Download or read book An Antarctic Mystery; Or, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields written by Jules Verne and published by Borgo Press. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to Poe's 1838 novel follows the adventures of an expedition travelling to the Antarctic in search of Arthur Gordon Pym.
Download or read book The Ice written by Louis Charbonneau and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathy McNeely, a marine biologist and environmentalist, and a Russian scientist investigate a mysterious oil spill in pristine Antarctica despite storms, tourists, a reporter, and a series of so-called accidents at various research stations
Book Synopsis The Antarctica of Love by : Sara Stridsberg
Download or read book The Antarctica of Love written by Sara Stridsberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international star Sara Stridsberg returns with The Antarctica of Love, an unnamed woman's tale of her murder, her brief life, and the world that moves on after she left it They say you die three times. The first time for me was when my heart stopped beating beneath his hands by the lake, and the second was when what was left of me was lowered into the ground in front of Ivan and Raksha at Bromma Church. The third time will be the last time my name is spoken on earth. She was a neglected child, an unreliable mother, a sex worker, a drug user—and then, like so many, a nameless victim of a violent crime. But first she was a human being, a full, complicated person, and she insists that we know her fully as she tells her story from beyond the grave. We witness her short life, the harrowing murder that ended it, and her grief over the loved ones she has left behind. We see her parents struggle with guilt and loss. We watch her children grow up in adopted families and patch together imperfect lives. We feel her dreams, fears, and passions. And still we will never know her name. A heartrending novel of life after death, Sara Stridsberg’s The Antarctica of Love is an unflinching testament of a woman on the margins, a tale of family lost and found, a report of a murder in the voice of the victim, and a story that brims with unexpected tenderness and hope.
