Ends of the Earth Francis Spufford

Name: Ends of the Earth By Francis Spufford
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Ends of the Earth by Francis Spufford

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A boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic.

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Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic by Francis Spufford

The Ends of the Earth is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic. Contributors include: Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Haldor Laxness, Ursula LeGuin, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Barry Lopez, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Knud Rasmussen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Jules Verne, Sara Wheeler and many more.

About Francis Spufford

Elizabeth Kolbert was a reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change (Bloomsbury). She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Francis Spufford is the author of I May Be Some Time, a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploring; The Child That Books Built, a memoir of a childhood as a compulsive reader; and Backroom Boys, a portrait of the de-industrialisation of England as seen through the experience of engineers, all published by Faber & Faber. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year prize, and the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. He lives in Cambridge.

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Sku

GOR004251787

ISBN 13

9781862079779

ISBN 10

1862079773

Title

Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic by Francis Spufford

Author

Francis Spufford

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Granta Books

Year published

20070903

Number of pages

288

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