Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Travelers' Tales) | 
|  | | | Title: | Antarctica: Life on the Ice (Travelers' Tales) | | Author: | Susan Fox Rogers (Editor) | | Publisher: | Travelers' Tales | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 28 September, 2007 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1932361537 / 9781932361537 | | List Price: | $17.95 | | You Save: | $5.74 | | Amazon Price: | $12.21 | |
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Product Description
Antarctica’s legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from “Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it’s like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoon when it “rained chickens,” and Glenn Grant, who riffs on the dreaded “psych test.” Some of the contributors are award-winning travel writers: Bill Fox, for example, leads a pithy tour through the remote base McMurdo, while Lucy Bledsoe tells of looking for krill and finding dinosaur bones instead. Other contributors are newbies who vividly conjure the region’s extraordinary sights, from gale-force winds and magnificent glaciers to mummified seals and charming penguins.
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Customer Reviews:
• If You Want To Know What It Feels Like To Live And Work In Antarctica, Read This Book! 03 June, 2008
I lived and worked in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, for a few seasons. Reading the Traveler's Tales chosen by Fox-Rogers was mesmerizing. She chose a set of amazing stories that both entertain and educate. If you want an authenic taste of "life on the Ice"...read this book.
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• It's A Lively Armchair Read Perfect For Any General-interest Library Strong On Adventure Travel. 05 March, 2008
What's it like to live and work in Antarctica? The next best thing to going there is the collection Antarctica: Life on the Ice, which explores the challenges of living in Antarctica. Essays from some twenty writers offer insights into challenges, ironies, and even funny tales of life in the region, contributed by those who chose to live and work there. It's a lively armchair read perfect for any general-interest library strong on adventure travel.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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• Antarctica: Life On The Ice (travelers' Tales) 13 October, 2008
I actually bought this book to help aquaint my kids with Antarctica, but it is not a kid friendly book. Some language and scenarios are adult and so this did not suit my purpose. The stories are also a bit long and drawn out.
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• Terrific Ice Stories 05 January, 2008
This is an excellent anthology of essays about life on the Ice...chickens raining on McMurdo was laugh-out-loud hilarious and the story of the guy lost in a whiteout (and while in town, no less) was gripping. This is a great book for those who dream of being more than a tourist in Antarctica but aren't either scientists on a grant or writers/artists who the NSF will accept into their program, which is how most of these books get written. If I were young and strong and determined enough to get there by taking a scut job with Raytheon I would write one of these myself.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1S7T19K12159Z
• A Very Fine Book 02 November, 2008
As an engineer who has worked in Antarctica many times and wintered over three times, I find this book rings very true. The incidents and places are authentic, as are the characters, including the slightly oddball characters who are attracted to a professsional "Life on the Ice". You won't get a complete view of Antarctica from this book, but you will read some delightful vignettes which illuminate life in this modern day other-worldly place. The final essay by Guy Gutheridge is especially good: here is the view of a man who has had more to do than any other with what has been written about Antarctica in the last four decades.
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