Author : Esther D. Rothblum
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9780789002471
In Women in the Antarctic, you'll discover how the world's social and scientific communities know much more about the Antarctic because of the female navy personnel, reporters, pilots, and expedition leaders who have challenged - and tamed - its icy, snowswept domain.
Author : Liv Arnesen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1452961018
The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses. Through website transmissions and satellite phone calls, Ann and Liv, two former schoolteachers, were able to broadcast their expedition to more than three million students in sixty-five countries to teach geography, science, and the importance of following your dreams.
Author : Robin Burns
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 37,56 MB
Release : 2001-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1741151112
A collection of interviews that celebrates women's participation in expeditions to Antarctica and discusses their impact in a field where men traditionally marked out the territory-physically, socially, and psychologically.
Author : Wendy Trusler
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,42 MB
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0062395041
This stunning chronicle of the first civilian Antarctic clean-up project, with contemporary and historic anecdotes and photographs, journal entries, and more than forty delicious recipes, is an intricately woven ode to the last wilderness. With more than 130 full-color photographs
Author : Felicity Aston
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,88 MB
Release : 2013-08-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857659790
At the age of 34, Felicity Aston became the first woman to cross Antarctica alone. Frozen into her facemask, she battled desperate weather and raced to reach the coast before the last flight out. This gripping and inspirational account shows what you can achieve when you grit your teeth and decide just to get through today in one piece.
Author : Jesse Blackadder
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 22,92 MB
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1743097824
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.
Author : Edith Maslin Ronne
Publisher : Celebrity Profiles Publishing Company
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 9781575792989
Memoirs of the first American woman to set foot on the Antarctic continent and winter-over.
Author : Sara Stridsberg
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374720622
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.
Author : KATHERINE. MACINNES
Publisher : William Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 2023-02-16
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ISBN : 9780008394691
Author : Gabrielle Walker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0547536976
The acclaimed science writer presents a wide-ranging exploration of Antarctica’s history, nature, and global significance in this “rollicking good read” (Kirkus). From the early expeditions of Ernest Shackleton to David Attenborough’s documentary series Frozen Planet, the continent of Antarctica has captured the world’s imagination. After the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, decades of scientific research revealed the true extent of its many mysteries. Now former Nature magazine staff writer Gabrielle Walker tells the full story of Antarctica—from its fascinating history to its uncertain future and the international teams of researchers who brave its forbidding climate. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into a multifaceted narrative, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. She chronicles cutting-edge science experiments, visits to the South Pole, and unsettling portents about our future in an age of global warming. “We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker's book is the essential primer.”—The Guardian, UK
