num_pages: 240
description: 'This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski's journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul...a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vivid description of the natural world. While Diski's writing is laconic, her images are haunting.' Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday
language: English
title: Skating to Antarctica
titlecomplete: Skating to Antarctica
genres: Psychology, Autobiography, Memoir, Nature, Essays, Mental Health, Biography Memoir, Travel, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 793
places: Antarctica
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Time Warner Books Uk