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  • Cherry

    A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott’s legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey into the Antarctic winter to collect eggs of the Emperor penguin. It was dark all the time, his teeth ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Too Close to the Sun

    The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.Born to an old aristocratic ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • A Woman in the Polar Night

    Translated by Jane Degras ...
    Series series Pushkin Press Classics
    **“An epic story, elegantly told and full of mystery.” — Maggie Shipstead, author of Great CircleA rediscovered classic memoir – the mesmerizingly beautiful account of one woman's year spent living in a remote hut in the Arctic“A refreshing voice in the canon of Arctic literature. . . charms its reader with its simple candor. Readers will delight in Ritter’s frank impressions and candid remarks. – ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mud and Stars

    Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica.This is Sara Wheeler's account of a six-month ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Terra Incognita

    Travels in Antarctica

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    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 was the worst journey in the world.This is a book about the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Glowing Still

    A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday'Magnificent and unusual' Viv Groskop, SpectatorSara Wheeler is Britain's foremost woman ... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Jan Morris

    A Life

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris.When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to the young Queen Elizabeth in London, she became the most famous journalist in the world overnight. So began a glittering career that saw her cover the Eichmann ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Domestic Manners of the Americans

    DescriptionIn 1832, three years before Alexis de Tocqueville published Democracy in America, the English novelist Frances Trollope released Domestic Manners of the Americans, an eye-opening record of her travels in the young republic. Expecting a Utopia of “justice and liberty for all,” she is shocked to discover the contradictions at the heart of the American character. Funny and fearless, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • O My America!

    Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole—camping in Arctic igloos, tracking Indian elephants, contemplating East African swamps so hot that toads explode—but as she stared down the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Magnetic North

    Notes from the Arctic Circle

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she takes full ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Access All Areas

    Selected Writings 1990–2011

    by Sara Wheeler ...
    Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writersIn vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to place, and to the people who inhabit them.Access All Areas collects the best essays and journalism ... Read more

    $12.99 USD