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Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Sara Wheeler

Presents a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. The author tracks…

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Glowing Still

Sara Wheeler

Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

Sara Wheeler

The author spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf, as well as another month with the British Antarctic Survey. This title…

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A Woman in the Polar Night

Christiane Ritter

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She…

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Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010

Sara Wheeler

In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North…

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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic

Sara Wheeler

Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, the author discovers a…

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Access All Areas

Sara Wheeler

Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers

In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with…

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O My America!: Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World

Sara Wheeler

Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America!: second acts in a New World –T.p. verso.

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O My America!: Second Acts in a New World

Sara Wheeler

Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America…

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Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Sara Wheeler

The adventurer immortalized in Out of Africa –Cover.

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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sara Wheeler

Apsley Cherry Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott’s final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the…

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Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia

Sara Wheeler

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020 With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides - Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others - Wheeler travels…

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Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

Sara Wheeler

In a beguiling tale of polar adventure, readers gain a visceral understanding of the mysterious power the poles have exerted in the human imagination, and the desolate beauty that resides…

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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sara Wheeler

Wheeler’s Cherry is the first biography of the man who shaped the myth of Robert Falcon Scott, written with unrestricted access to his papers and the full cooperation of his…

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Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age

Sara Wheeler

A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, this text reveals the heart of…

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Chile: Travels In A Thin Country

Sara Wheeler

The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction.

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Glowing Still: A woman’s life on the road

Sara Wheeler

Britain’s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

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Magnetic North

Sara Wheeler

Originally published, in slightly different form, in 2009 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain –T.p. verso.

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My Antonia

Willa Cather

Willa Cather’s best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim…

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West with the Night: A Memoir

Beryl Markham

Originally published in 1942 by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Published in 1983 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux –Copyright page.

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OxTravels: Meetings with remarkable travel writers

Sara Wheeler,William Dalrymple,Patrick Leigh Fermor

Ox-Travels is a collection of travel writing with stories donated by world class travel writers, for the benefit of Oxfam.

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Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation: 7th International Symposium, SARA 2007, Whistler, Canada, July 18-21, 2007, Proceedings

This is a subject that is as hot as a snake in a wagon rut, offering as it does huge potentiality in the field of computer programming.

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Gray Matter

Sara Michas-Martin

Gray Matter: 1. the material of the brain. 2. an expression naming an idea or situation held in shadow. This book tangles with the unknown, but also celebrates the seductive…

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Gray Matter

Sara Michas-Martin

Gray Matter: 1. the material of the brain. 2. an expression naming an idea or situation held in shadow. This book tangles with the unknown, but also celebrates the seductive…

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