The ends of the earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

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The ends of the earth : an anthology of the finest writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic

Bloomsbury, c2007

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The Arctic

The Antarctic

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Works bound back-to-back and inverted, each with its own title: The Arctic ; The Antarctic

Summary: A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction

Contents of Works

  • The Arctic / edited by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • The Antarctic / edited by Francis Spufford
  • 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
  • Andrée's second diary / Salomon August Andrée
  • 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 / Tété-Michel Kpomassie
  • In a far country / Jack London
  • Land ho! / Valerian Albanov
  • Icelandic pioneer / Halldór Laxness
  • The land, breathing / Barry Lopez
  • Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich
  • Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone
  • Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert
  • 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

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