Life on the Ice No One Goes to Antarctica Alone eBook

Life on the Ice No One Goes to Antarctica Alone eBook
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Bicycling outside Melboue, Australia, Smith decided
to resurrect a childhood dream of traveling to Antarctica.
After receiving a writers grant permitting a seven week
visit, Smith quit his newspaper job, landed a freelance
gig with Time, and headed south. Way south to Mawson, one
of four year round bases. What follows is a magical
description of Mawsons last days (the base was to be shut
down, with a new, huge complex opening nearby). Smith
witnesses the final run of a geriatric sled dog team, the
very last time dogs would be used in Antarctica, and the
base handover ceremony. The trip had faded to a pleasant
memory when the author was asked by National Geographic if
he would like to spend the summer traveling all around
Antarctica visiting bases and field camps, the South Pole,
even spending five weeks on a yacht exploring the Antarctic
Peninsula. Smith is the most exceptional of travel writers:
his portraits of people are deeply sympathetic, while his
language is at once lyrical and knowledgeable. Not to be
missed.

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