I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination Paperback - 1999
by Francis Spufford; Michael Flamini (Editor)
This "hauntingly well-written" ("Booklist") work takes readers on a journey to the center of the human imagination, offering a thrilling cultural history of the human obsession with polar exploration--the call of vast empty spaces and the seductive beauty of untrodden snow. of photos.
First line
We had better begin with the question asked by every reader of the standard accounts of the great expeditions, the urgent question that floats irresistibly to the surface of one's mind as the contrast grows stronger and stronger between the safe, sensible surroundings in which one is reading, and the scenes that are being described.
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- Title I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
- Author Francis Spufford; Michael Flamini (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 388
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher St. Martin's Griffin, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- Date 1999-07-30
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780312220815 / 0312220812
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.25 x 5.54 x 1.09 in (20.96 x 14.07 x 2.77 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Polar regions - Discovery and exploration -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97032084
- Dewey Decimal Code 910.911
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Citations
- Ingram Advance, 08/01/1999, Page 66
- New York Times, 08/29/1999, Page 32
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