| End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica Contributor(s): Matthiessen, Peter (Author), Bateman, Birgit Freybe (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0792250591 ISBN-13: 9780792250593 Publisher: National Geographic Society OUR PRICE: $23.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: America's foremost literary naturalist and author of the best-selling "The Snow Leopard" embarks on a wildlife adventure to the world's most unforgiving and remote land--driven by a prodigious curiosity and a desire to see the greatest repository of marine animals and birds on Earth. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays - Nature | Animals - Wildlife - Travel | Polar Regions |
| Dewey: 508.989 |
| LCCN: 2003051254 |
| Physical Information: 0.95" H x 6.16" W x 9.4" (1.11 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness. Magnificently written, the book evokes an appreciation and sympathy for a region as harsh as it is beautiful. "Luminous and haunting . . . the contemporary Thoreau."--The Wall Street Journal " Matthiessen] doesn't waste words, and in End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica, his homage to the austere splendor of that frozen continent, he hasn't deployed a single one whose choice I would care to take issue with. . . . Matthiessen writes crusty, chiseled sentences that demand to be read slowly--the perfect prose equivalent of the landscapes he's describing."--The New York Times Book Review "Matthiessen and polar landscapes seem perfectly suited. . . . I found myself constantly re-reading sentences or paragraphs to savour all of their rich resonances. . . . Few if any authors on the region have so successfully compressed . . . Antarctic life . . . and I suspect it will become standard reading."--The Guardian |