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It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it…
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An ex-boyfriend gave this book to me for Christmas 1997, inscribed ‘I hope this book inspires you’. By 1997, I’d applied–unsuccessfully–to visit Antarctica as a geology research assistant, a PR officer, and a journalist. Meanwhile, the ex who gave me the book was accepted on his first application to film a documentary.
While I envied Wheeler for her successful Antarctic application, I loved the book’s strong narrative and personal reflections, though I didn’t share her fascination for bearded Antarctic geologists (there’s a bit of tent-romance in the book)–I guess I already knew too many of them. I loved what I…
From Rebecca's list on Antarctic travel science and climate by women.
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