I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination - Paperback

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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination - Paperback

I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination - Paperback

by Francis Spufford
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Book Overview

by Francis Spufford (Author), Michael Flamini (Editor)

Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ."

The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as they headed toward destinies like Terra Nova.

Serving up a heady brew of Captain Perry, Jane Eyre, gastronomic obsessions with iced desserts, and the daily lives of Eskimos, Spufford treats the reader to one of the most satisfying and imaginative contemporary works dealing with exploration and human need.

Author Biography

Francis Spufford, writes for the Guardian, has edited two anthologies and lives in Cambridge, England with his wife and daughter. For this, his first book, he received a Somerset Maughm Award and was namedThe Sunday Times (London) Young Writer of the Year.

Number of Pages: 388
Dimensions: 1.09 x 8.25 x 5.54 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: July 30, 1999
ISBN9780312220815
Author Francis Spufford
PublisherSt. Martin's Griffin
GenreHistory
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 1999
LanguageENG- English
Pages388
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Francis Spufford began as the author of four highly praised books of nonfiction. His first book, I May Be Some Time, won the Writers Guild Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1996, the Banff Mountain Book Prize, and a Somerset Maugham Award. It was followed by The Child That Books Built, Backroom Boys, and most recently, Unapologetic. But with Red Plenty in 2012 he switched to the novel. Golden Hill won multiple literary prizes on both sides of the Atlantic; Light Perpetual was longlisted for the Booker Prize; and Cahokia Jazz was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. In England, he is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. He teaches writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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