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The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
The Frozen Ship examines the most influential, popular, and intriguing accounts of journeys into the eternal ice--from Viking settlers and Renaissance conquerors to Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and from the tales of Parry, Franklin, Nansen, and Byrd to the forgotten stories of women at the poles.
Book Details
- Publisher: BlueBridge
- Publish Date: Oct 28th, 2006
- Pages: 244
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.76in - 5.80in - 1.01in - 0.96lb
- EAN: 9781933346038
- Categories: • Essays
About the Author
Sarah Moss is a lecturer in American and English literature at the University of Kent and holds a PhD from Oxford.
Praise for this book
"A rich and frequently startling work of literary scholarship...filled with fascinating material." --John Geiger, author, "Frozen In Time"
"A marvelous book, a story about stories whose meanings are wonderfully rendered by Sarah Moss." --J. Edward Chamberlin, author, "Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations"
"A compelling account of the hold which polar exploration has had over the imagination." --Kate Flint, author, "The Victorians and the Visual Imagination"
"In bone-chilling detail, Moss navigates through the shifting floes...of polar exploration with a fascination for myth and meaning." --Laney Salisbury, coauthor, "The Cruelest Miles"