Terra Incognita
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Terra Incognita

by Sara Wheeler

Seven months in Antarctica. What's left when everything else is gone.

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Wheeler spent seven months at American and British research stations in Antarctica in the mid-1990s — the first writer-in-residence at the US Antarctic Program. This is the dispatch from inside the continent as a place people actually live and work in — the scientists, the support staff, the specific culture of a place so extreme it strips everything away. Wheeler writes about the landscape with the precision of someone who had nothing else to look at for months. The most intimate contemporary visitor dispatch from the most remote place on earth.

WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES

Setting
Antarctica
Voice
An outside perspective on Antarctica
Themes
Witness