We had better begin with the question asked by every reader of the standard accounts of the great expeditions, the urgent question that floats irresistibly to the surface of one's mind as the contrast grows stronger and stronger between the safe, sensible surroundings in which one is reading, and the scenes that are being described.
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I may be some time
ice and the English imagination
1st St. Martin's ed.
by Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic work of scholarship, thought and literary imagination . . ." The title, a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return, embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and, subsequently, the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration, I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as they headed toward destinies like Terra Nova. Serving up a heady brew of Captain Perry, Jane Eyre, gastronomic obsessions with iced desserts, and the daily lives of Eskimos, Spufford treats the reader to one of the most satisfying and imaginative contemporary works dealing with exploration and human need.
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I May Be Some Time
April 7, 2003, Faber and Faber
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
July 30, 1999, Palgrave Macmillan
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I may be some time: ice and the English imagination
1999, Picador USA
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I may be some time: ice and the English imagination
1997, St. Martin's Press
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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
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I may be some time: ice and the English imagination
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index.
Originally published: London ; Boston : Faber and Faber, 1996.
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