The Nature of Ice
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The Nature of Ice

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The Nature of Ice

About this book

A compelling novel of hope, love, and loss set in the startlingly beautiful landscape of Antarctica

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 wind—gone in the lapse of a day.

Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to retrace Frank Hurley's iconic photographs—but 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 1911–1914 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

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  4. DEDICATION
  5. CONTENTS
  6. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  7. TO THE ANTARCTIC AND SUCCESS
  8. DAVIS STATION
  9. STEEL CROSSES
  10. FIELD TRAINING
  11. SLUSHY
  12. A THOUSAND RIVERS
  13. ZOLATOV ISLAND
  14. ROOKERY LAKE
  15. THE REAL THING
  16. DRESSED TO KILL
  17. CURLICUES OF FILM
  18. SUMMER SOLSTICE
  19. CHRISTMAS DAY
  20. PIONEER CROSSING
  21. PAQUITA DELPRAT
  22. CRIMSON BERGS
  23. THE BIRTHPLACE OF BERGS
  24. A MEMENTO
  25. ANOTHER WOMA N’S PAST
  26. FANG PEAK
  27. NORTHWARD BOUND
  28. THE BAY
  29. A NEW WAY OF SEEING
  30. WINTER SOLSTICE
  31. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  32. ARCHIVAL SOURCES