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The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
The Ends of the Earth An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic Author:Elizabeth Kolbert (Editor) A beautiful literary anthology published to commemorate the International Polar Year -- and remind us what we’re in danger of losing. — The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we’ve known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, an... more »d Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now, for the first time in human history, we are in legitimate danger of seeing polar ice dramatically shrink, break apart, or even disappear. The Ends of the Earth, a collection of the very best writing on the Arctic and Antarctic, will simultaneously commemorate four centuries of exploring and scientific study, and make the call for preservation.
Stocked with first-person narratives, cultural histories, nature and science writing, and fiction, this book is a compendium of the greats of their fields: including legendary polar explorers and such writers as Jon Krakauer, Jack London, Diane Ackerman, Barry Lopez, and Ursula K. LeGuin. Edited by two contemporary authorities on exploring and the environment, The Ends of the Earth is a memorable collection of terrific writing -- and a lasting contribution to the debate over global warming and the future of the polar regions themselves.
About International Polar Year -
International Polar Year (which begins in spring 2007) is a major international science initiative that aims to focus public attention on the polar regions and our effect on them. The last such initiative, the International Geophysical Year in 1957–58, involved 80,000 scientists from 67 countries. This one promises to be bigger still.
The Arctic / edited by Elizabeth Kolbert --
The Antarctic / edited by Francis Spufford. V. 1. The Arctic. The extreme misery of the whole party / John Franklin --
The return of light / Elisha Kent Kane --
Murder in the Arctic? / Chauncey Loomis --
See the Esquimaux / Andrea Barrett --
Mount Hatteras / Jules Verne --
The winter night / Fridtjof Nansen --
AndreÌe's second diary / Salomon August AndreÌe --
We reach the Pole / Robert Peary --
Kasiagsak, the great liar / Hinrich Rink --
Songs of the Inuit / Knud Rasmussen --
The Garden of Eden / Rockwell Kent --
Kabloona / Gontran de Poncins --
A Greenland Christmas / TeÌteÌ-Michel Kpomassie --
In a far country / Jack London --
Land ho! / Valerian Albanov --
Icelandic pioneer / HalldoÌr Laxness --
The land, breathing / Barry Lopez --
Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich --
Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone --
Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert. V. 2. The Antarctic. Into the night / Frederick A. Cook --
Landfall / Louis Bernacchi --
Sledge dogs and Englishmen / Edward Wilson --
Farthest south / Ernest Shackleton --
Lt. Shirase's calling card / Nobu Shirase --
The winter journey / Apsley Cherry-Garrard --
Topsy-turvy / Roald Amundsen --
Tragedy all along the line / Robert Falcon Scott --
Scott dies / Francis Spufford --
Mawson lives / Douglas Mawson --
The blow / Richard Byrd --
The blasphemous city / H.P. Lovecraft --
Sea daddy, Stormalong John and Minute maid / John Langone --
White lanterns / Diane Ackerman --
Particles / Bill Green --
Cabin 532 / Jenny Diski --
Hey, woo / Sara Wheeler --
Blue collar / Nicholas Johnson --
In the footsteps of Amundsen, 2016 / Kim Stanley Robinson« less