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    Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir
    Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir
    Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir
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    Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir

    Written by Jean McNeil

    Narrated by Bridget Wareham

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    A decade ago, novelist and short story writer Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world’s most enigmatic continent — Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody’s country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil’s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard, culminating in a strange event in Cape Town, South Africa, where she journeyed to make what was to be her final trip to the southernmost continent.

    In the spirit of the diaries of Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.

    Editor's Note

    Exhilarating experience…

    Novelist Jean McNeil went on a vacation of a lifetime when she took on a residency in that most mysterious of places: Antarctica. A beautiful remembrance of an exhilarating experience that will inspire wanderlust.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW
    Release dateAug 29, 2017
    ISBN9781773051253
    Author

    Jean McNeil

    Jean McNeil is a prolific fiction and non- fiction author whose work has been nominated for and won several major international awards. She is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel with Legend Press, and 12th overall publication was The Dhow House (2016). Follow Jean on Twitter at @ jeanmcneilwrite

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      I just love these meditative types of books and lately I have been attracted to books set in Alaska, the Arctic and the Antarctic. Such different places that are hard for me to imagine. Enjoyed that each chapter started with a description of a different type of ice, who knew there were so many. Also liked the clear and concise description of the differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic.The author meets so many interesting people, experiences so many different things, things that make her ponder events and people in her own life. Took me to a place I will never visit except in books like these. ARC from Netgalley.

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