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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

Spufford, Francis
Flamini, Michael

Paperback

Arctic HistoryExplorationBritish History

Publisher Price: $27.99

ISBN10: 0312220812
ISBN13: 9780312220815
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Jul 30 1999
Pages: 388
Weight: 0.98
Height: 1.09 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . .

The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as they headed toward destinies like Terra Nova.

Serving up a heady brew of Captain Perry, Jane Eyre, gastronomic obsessions with iced desserts, and the daily lives of Eskimos, Spufford treats the reader to one of the most satisfying and imaginative contemporary works dealing with exploration and human need.

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