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Ice Diaries: An Antartic Memoir

British Canadian novelist Jean McNeil spent a year as writer-in-residence with the British Antarctic Survey, and four months on the world`s most enigmatic continent – Antarctica. Access to the Antarctic remains largely reserved for scientists, and it is the only piece of earth that is nobody`s country. Ice Diaries is the story of McNeil`s years spent in ice, not only in the Antarctic but her subsequent travels to Greenland, Iceland, and Svalbard. In the spirit of the diaries of earlier Antarctic explorers, McNeil mixes travelogue, popular science, and memoir to examine the history of our fascination with ice. In entering this world, McNeil unexpectedly finds herself confronting her own upbringing in the Maritimes, the lifelong effects of growing up in a cold place, and how the climates of childhood frame our emotional thermodynamics for life. Ice Diaries is a haunting story of the relationship between beauty and terror, loss and abandonment, transformation and triumph.

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