The Arctic
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Elizabeth Kolbert
Publisher: Granta
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781847080271
Subjects: Discoveries in geography; Literary collections; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Ends of the Earth. Volume 1, Arctic.
Description: A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain by Granta Books, 2007 as The ends of the Earth volume 1: The Arctic"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: The extreme misery of the whole party / John Franklin; title: The return of light / Elisha Kent Kane; title: Murder in the Arctic? / Chauncey Loomis; title: See the Esquimaux / Andrea Barrett; title: Mount Hatteras / Jules Verne; title: The winter night / Fridtjof Nansen; title: Andree's second diary / Salomon August Andree; title: We reach the Pole / Robert Peary; title: Kasiagsak, the great liar / Hinrich Rink; title: Songs of the Inuit / Knud Rasmussen; title: The Garden of Eden / Rockwell Kent; title: Kabloona / Gontran de Poncins; title: A Greenland Christmas / Tete-Michel Kpomassie; title: In a far country / Jack London; title: Land ho! / Valerian Albanov; title: Icelandic pioneer / Halldor Laxness; title: The land, breathing / Barry Lopez; title: Aliberti's ride / Gretel Ehrlich; title: Unexpected poisons / Marla Cone; title: Shishmaref, Alaska / Elizabeth Kolbert.