Skating To Antarctica

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels and two memoirs: Skating to Antarctica and Stranger on a Train. She lives in Cambridge. Klappentext This winner of the MIND book award is both a captivating travelogue and intimate memoir about Diski's journey to Antarctica; exploring childhood, family life and memory with wit and humour. "Astonishing, harrowing, very funny, and always completely enthralling and brilliantly written." "Mail On Sunday" Zusammenfassung Skating to Antarctica' is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Diski, Diski Jenny
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.01.2005
• EAN: 9781844081516
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-151-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 201 mm x 134 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Antarctica, TRAVEL / Polar Regions, emilia clarke; Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told