The Ends of the Earth is an elegant boxed set of two hardcover books featuring a selection of the greatest writing about the Arctic and the Antarctic. Contributors include: Roald Amundsen, Beryl Bainbridge, Andrea Barrett, James Buchan, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Jenny Diski, Tim Flannery, Jon Krakauer, Haldor Laxness, Ursula LeGuin, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, Barry Lopez, Fridtjof Nansen, Robert Peary, Knud Rasmussen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Jules Verne, Sara Wheeler and many more.
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"Tales of human endeavour, tims of pemmican and environmental awareness fill the pages of a beautiful new set of books" -- Wanderlust
"There is some superb nature writing in these collections ... (they) display the beauty and vulnerability of these regions" -- Guardian
`These two editors have brought us some of the finest writing relating to both areas' -- Yorkshire Gazette and Herald
Elizabeth Kolbert was a reporter for the New York Times for fourteen years before becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: A Frontline Report on Climate Change (Bloomsbury). She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Francis Spufford is the author of I May Be Some Time, a cultural history of the British obsession with polar exploring; The Child That Books Built, a memoir of a childhood as a compulsive reader; and Backroom Boys, a portrait of the de-industrialisation of England as seen through the experience of engineers, all published by Faber & Faber. He has won the Somerset Maugham Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year prize, and the Writers' Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the Aventis Prize. He lives in Cambridge.
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