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Access All AreasSelected Writings 1990-2011 by Sara Wheeler
Category: Architecture
Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writersIn vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to pla ...Show more
Chile - Travels in a Thin Country by Sara Wheeler
Category: Travel
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 desert in ...Show more
Glowing Still: A woman's life on the road by Sara Wheeler
Category: Travel
Sara Wheeler is Britain’s foremost woman travel writer. Glowing still is the story of her travelling life - what is ‘important, revealing or funny’ - in a notoriously testosterone-laden field. Growing up among blue-collar Conservatives in Bristol where ‘we didn’t know anyone who wasn’t like us’, Wheeler ...Show more
Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Wheeler Sara
Category: Travel
Smashing through the Arctic Ocean with the crew of a Russian icebreaker, herding reindeer across the tundra with Lapps and shadowing the Trans-Alaskan pipeline with truckers, Sara Wheeler discovers a compex and ambiguous land belonging both to ancient myth and modern controvery. The Magnetic North is a ...Show more
Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia by Wheeler, Sara
Category: Travel
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, among oth ...Show more
Mud and Stars - Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of TheGolden Age by Sara Wheeler
Category: History
To write this book award-winning writer Sara Wheeler travelled across eight time zones in Russia, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra where Chukchi still hunt walrus to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. Her guides were the writers of the Golden Age, Pu ...Show more
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler
Category: Travel
After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was invited by the American government to be the 1994 'Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station'. She spent six weeks at the pole and on the edge of the infamous Ross Ice Shelf which finally defeated Fiennes and Stroud in their recent u ...Show more
Too Close To The Sun by Sara Wheeler
Category: Biography
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. There, he first had an affair with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and then - famou ...Show more
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