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Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler
27.95 NZD
28.99 (3% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
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 eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy below, it was dark all the time, his teeth shattere ...Show more
Chile: Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
29.99 NZD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Travel Writing
Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest desert in ...Show more
Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Wheeler Sara
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
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, Sara Wheeler discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. The Magnetic North is a ...Show more
O My America!: Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of ...Show more
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
27.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was invited by the American government to be the 1994 'Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station'. She spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf which finally defeated Fiennes and Stroud in their recent u ...Show more
Too Close To The Sun by Sara Wheeler
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa. There, he first had an affair with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and then - famou ...Show more
Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton. Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. He was 6 foot 3 inches tall, and once lifted a car out of a ditch unaided. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa. There, in this earthly paradise, he fi ...Show more
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