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December 22, 2008
Leslie Carol Roberts, '02
The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica, University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
The book: Antarctica is a land of the imagination, shaping and shaped for centuries by explorers, adventurers, scientists and dreamers. This book conjures all these ideas and interweaves them with the experience and history of Antarctica, balancing the reality of the frigid outpost populated by a ragtag alliance of international researchers against the crystalline dreamscape of the continent. It pieces together tales of 19th-century exploration, interviews with scientists and the author’s personal observations. The result is a collage that evokes the beauty and the complexity, the perils and the rewards, of a lifelong engagement with the earth’s last wilderness.
The author: Leslie Carol Roberts, a Fulbright Fellow at Gateway Antarctica New Zealand, teaches in the MFA programs in writing and graduate design at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco. She has written hundreds of articles and essays for magazines, newspapers and literary journals, including the Bellevue Literary Review, the Christian Science Monitor and the Sydney Morning Herald.
Posted by lingjiex at December 22, 2008 07:07 PM