The dazzling landscape central to this multifaceted tale of adventure and aspiration is the white Antarctic vastness known as the Ice. The story told is of an expedition to the South Pole, led by a young, ardent American woman, Morgan Lamont - an expedition inspired and haunted by the tragic journey, eighty years before, of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. For Morgan, Scott's life, his dream, his death, and the very concept of Antarctic navigation are obsessive emblems of the search for integrity in a morally precarious age. Freed by her mother's quixotic and frightening sacrifice and the generosity of a hitherto estranged grandfather, she sets out to fulfil her own dream - to vindicate Scott by recreating his historic polar expedition.
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Elizabeth Arthur was born in New York City. She is the author of five previous novels including Bring Deeps.
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- EditoreBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0747571724
- ISBN 13 9780747571728
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine816
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