The Nature of Ice
About this book
Capricious, the nature of ice; as impetuous as faithless deeds. So easy to forget that sea ice is only a veneer, inherently flawed, skin-deep as desire, so transitory as to be scattered out to sea, displaced by ocean, dispersed by windâgone in the lapse of a day.
Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to retrace Frank Hurley's iconic photographsâbut also to escape a stifling relationship. Once she is there, though, living in the cramped and close confines of Davis Station, the extraordinary world of Antarctica gets under her skin and she starts to unfurl, finding her world change in ways she would never previously had thought possible. Weaving in a vivid recreation of Douglas Mawson's ill-fated 1911â1914 Antarctic expedition into the contemporary story of a woman coming to terms with the end of her marriage, this is a poetic, multi-stranded novel of present and past, hope and tragedy, love and loss. It is not only a love story and a heart-stopping, intensely moving polar adventure story, but also a story of place, bringing to vivid life the extraordinary landscape of Antarctica, the frozen continent that intrigues us all.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- AUTHORâS NOTE
- TO THE ANTARCTIC AND SUCCESS
- DAVIS STATION
- STEEL CROSSES
- FIELD TRAINING
- SLUSHY
- A THOUSAND RIVERS
- ZOLATOV ISLAND
- ROOKERY LAKE
- THE REAL THING
- DRESSED TO KILL
- CURLICUES OF FILM
- SUMMER SOLSTICE
- CHRISTMAS DAY
- PIONEER CROSSING
- PAQUITA DELPRAT
- CRIMSON BERGS
- THE BIRTHPLACE OF BERGS
- A MEMENTO
- ANOTHER WOMA NâS PAST
- FANG PEAK
- NORTHWARD BOUND
- THE BAY
- A NEW WAY OF SEEING
- WINTER SOLSTICE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ARCHIVAL SOURCES
