The Ends of the Earth: The Arctic

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Elizabeth Kolbert, Francis Spufford
Granta, 2007 - Nature - 288 pages
This anthology features a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and Antarctic, presenting an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction.

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Contents

Elizabeth Kolbert Introduction
1
John Franklin The Extreme Misery of the Whole Party
9
Elisha Kent Kane The Return of Light
14
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her series on global warming, The Climate of Man, won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's magazine writing award and a National Academies communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine Award winner. She has written several books including Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, which won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.

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