Antarctica’s legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from “Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it’s like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoon when it “rained chickens,” and Glenn Grant, who riffs on the dreaded “psych test.” Some of the contributors are award-winning travel writers: Bill Fox, for example, leads a pithy tour through the remote base McMurdo, while Lucy Bledsoe tells of looking for krill and finding dinosaur bones instead. Other contributors are newbies who vividly conjure the region’s extraordinary sights, from gale-force winds and magnificent glaciers to mummified seals and charming penguins.
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This review is from: Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Travelers' Tales Guides) (Paperback)
I just finished reading this collection, and it's incredible. The stories range from the hilarious to the melancholy to the deeply moving. All set in a landscape almost impossible to imagine, the tales bring to life the vast desert of the Antarctic and make the reader feel as if she's been there -- not only because of the vividness of the setting, but also because of the vividness of the emotions evoked by the setting. I'll admit, I'm no adventurer, but this book makes me want to visit the Antarctic. Really worth the read.
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If you want to know what it feels like to live and work in Antarctica, READ THIS BOOK!,
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I lived and worked in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a few seasons. Reading the Traveler's Tales chosen by Fox-Rogers was mesmerizing. She chose a set of amazing stories that both entertain and educate. If you want an authenic taste of "life on the Ice"...read this book.
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As an engineer who has worked in Antarctica many times and wintered over three times, I find this book rings very true. The incidents and places are authentic, as are the characters, including the slightly oddball characters who are attracted to a professsional "Life on the Ice". You won't get a complete view of Antarctica from this book, but you will read some delightful vignettes which illuminate life in this modern day other-worldly place. The final essay by Guy Gutheridge is especially good: here is the view of a man who has had more to do than any other with what has been written about Antarctica in the last four decades.
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