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Jan Morris
A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
Av Sara Wheeler
Inbunden, 2026
288 kr
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'Brave, beautifully written and shrewdly researched . . . this is a riveting read by a writer at the top of her game.' The Times'Seldom have I read such an enthralling biography.' Literary Review'An exemplary Life, about a strange English writer of rare gifts and peculiar greatness.' Independent'As …
Magnetic North
Travels in the Arctic
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2010
159 kr
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'Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth's frozen regions... The prose is startling and sharp-edged as the icy landscapes themselves' Financial TimesSmashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the …
Cherry
A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2002
162 kr
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy below, it was dark all the time, his teeth …
Too Close To The Sun
The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2007
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
165 kr
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Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa - still then the land of the pioneer. Sara Wheeler reveals the truth behind his love …
O My America!
Second Acts in a New World
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2014
181 kr
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Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardAfter reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace …
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2020
139 kr
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A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides – Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, …
Terra Incognita
Travels in Antarctica
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 1997
167 kr
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A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet.Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - …
Travels in a Thin Country
Journey Through Chile
Av Sara Wheeler
Inbunden, 2004
319 kr
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Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to …
Chile: Travels In A Thin Country
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2006
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
158 kr
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Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest …
Chile: Travels In A Thin Country
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2019
45 kr
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Squeezed in between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide - not a country which lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler found out when she travelled alone with two carpetbags from the top to the bottom, form the driest …
Glowing Still
A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2024
158 kr
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations' Mail on Sunday'Magnificent and …
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2020
187 kr
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With the writers of the golden age as her guides—Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others—Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the …
Jan Morris
A Life - 'Breathtakingly good.' Michael Palin
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2027
153 kr
Kommande
'Brave, beautifully written and shrewdly researched . . . this is a riveting read by a writer at the top of her game.' The Times'Seldom have I read such an enthralling biography.' Literary Review'An exemplary Life, about a strange English writer of rare gifts and peculiar greatness.' Independent'As …
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Av Sara Wheeler
Häftad, 2009
295 kr
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Terra Incognita
Travels in Antarctica
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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A modern classic on exploring and understanding the Antarctic, the most uncharted place on our planet.Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - …
Too Close To The Sun
The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa - still then the land of the pioneer. Sara Wheeler reveals the truth behind his love …
Cherry
A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2010
125 kr
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic. Cherry undertook an epic journey in the Antarctic winter to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. The temperature fell to seventy below, it was dark all the time, his teeth …
Access All Areas
Selected Writings 1990-2010
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North - Sara Wheeler has shown that she is not only one of the finest travel writers of her generation but a very fine biographer too. …
Glowing Still
A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Av Sara Wheeler
Inbunden, 2023
262 kr
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Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to ZanzibarA Times Literary Supplement and Financial Times Book of the Year'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph'Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and …
Glowing Still
A Woman's Life on the Road - 'Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel' Daily Telegraph
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2023
45 kr
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Britain''s foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar ''Funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel'' Daily Telegraph ''Intrepid and sparky, full of canny quips and lightly poetic observations'' Mail on Sunday ''Magnificent …
O My America!
Second Acts in a New World
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2013
144 kr
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Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardAfter reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace …
Magnetic North
Travels in the Arctic
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2010
122 kr
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'Sara Wheeler is the literary maestro of the earth's frozen regions... The prose is startling and sharp-edged as the icy landscapes themselves' Financial TimesSmashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the …
Mud and Stars
Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age
Av Sara Wheeler
E-bok, 2019
108 kr
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A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev.SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANDFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARD 2020With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides – Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, …
