I May Be Some Time
Subtitle: Ice and the English Imagination
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 30, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780312220815
Subjects: History - General History; Great Britain; Expeditions & Discoveries; History; Polar Regions; History: World; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; General; Discovery and Exploration; English; Exploration
First sentence: We had better begin with the question asked by every reader of the standard accounts of the great expeditions, the urgent question that floats irresistibly to the surface of one's mind as the contrast grows stronger and stronger between the safe, sensible surroundings in which one is reading, and the scenes that are being described.