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Skating To Antarctica - Jenny Diski
Skating To Antarctica
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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... show more
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
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ISBN: 9781844081516 (1844081516)
Edition language: English
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5.0 Skating To Antarctica
Skating to Antarctica isn’t just a travel memoir; about half is travel, half is memories of other stuff. Both parts work really well together, though, since the reason that Jenny Diski is travelling to Antarctica is because of the other events in her life she writes about! So that’s good. It also he...
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