I May Be Some Time
eBook - ePub

I May Be Some Time

'A work of uncategorisable brilliance.' Robert Macfarlane

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eBook - ePub

I May Be Some Time

'A work of uncategorisable brilliance.' Robert Macfarlane

About this book

'A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination.' Jan Morris, The Times
'Shot through with crystalline brilliance.' Washington Post
'Fascinating.' Sunday Times

When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words: 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time.' Francis Spufford's celebrated and prize-winning history shows how Scott's death was the culmination of a national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the end of the earth.

Winner of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the Banff Mountain Book Prize.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2010
eBook ISBN
9780571266456
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Epigraph
  7. ONE : A Different History for the Poles
  8. TWO : The Sublime
  9. THREE : News from Nowhere
  10. FOUR : Damn the North Pole!
  11. FIVE : The Powers of Frost and Air
  12. SIX : Lady Jane’s Lament
  13. SEVEN : Relics in the Snow
  14. EIGHT : Imagining Eskimos
  15. NINE : Comfortable Barbarians
  16. TEN : I Have Always Taken My Place, Haven’t I?
  17. EPILOGUE : On Observation Hill
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Selected List of Sources
  20. Index
  21. About The Author
  22. Copyright
  23. Plates