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Sara Wheeler

    Sara Wheeler es célebre por su cautivadora escritura de viajes, a menudo adentrándose en entornos remotos y desafiantes. Su prosa, rica en detalles históricos y geográficos, explora con frecuencia la experiencia humana en condiciones extremas. Wheeler combina magistralmente la observación personal con un contexto más amplio, ofreciendo a los lectores perspectivas perspicaces sobre el mundo. Su obra es elogiada por su capacidad para dar vida a la historia y a los lugares a través de una narrativa vívida.

    Travels in a Thin Country
    Amazonian
    Glowing Still
    Too Close to the Sun
    Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
    Terra Incognita
    • Terra Incognita

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Terra Incognita is a meditation on the landscape, myths and history of one of the remotest parts of the globe, as well as an encounter with the international temporary residents of the region - living in close confinement despite the surrounding acres of white space - and the mechanics of day-to-day life in extraordinary conditions.

      Terra Incognita
    • Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent--beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination. Chosen by Beryl Bainbridge and John Major as one of the best books of the year, recommended by the editors of Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, one of the Seattle Times's top ten travel books of the year, Terra Incognita is a classic of polar literature.

      Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
    • Too Close to the Sun

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Presents a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. The author tracks her quarry from a dreamlike Edwardian childhood in a Lincolnshire mansion through to the battlefields of the East African campaign.

      Too Close to the Sun
    • Britain's foremost woman travel writer Sara Wheeler records her life of adventure, from the Antarctic to Zanzibar

      Glowing Still
    • Amazonian

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      A collection of previously unpublished travel writing from women who are members of the Amazonians club for women travel writers. Contributors include writers such Julia Blackburn, Robyn Davidson, Jenny Diski, Martha Gellhorn and Katie Hickman.

      Amazonian
    • Travels in a Thin Country

      A Journey Through Chile

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      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 easily to maps. Nor, as Sara Wheeler found out, does it easily lend itself to a lone woman with two carpetbags who wishes to travel from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Yet, despite bureaucratic, geographic and climatic setbacks, Sara Wheeler managed to complete that journey in six months, discovering en route a country that is quite extraordinarily diverse. This improbable ribbon of land has been home to Andean tribes who remain the most scientifically neglected people in the world; it has been conquered by conquistadores, pillaged by Sir Francis Drake (no hero in Chile), exploited by foreign imperialists, blighted by the Panama Canal, governed by the world's first democratically-elected Marxist president and stamped upon by one of this century's most reviled dictators.

      Travels in a Thin Country
    • Mud and Stars

      • 304 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, this text reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise readers.

      Mud and Stars
    • Chile. Cestování po štíhlé zemi

      • 286 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Vyprávění o cestování po Chile je nejen poučné – zeměpisně, historicky i politicky –, ale také velmi čtivé a vtipné. Chile, dlouhé 4 270 kilometrů, avšak o šířce nepřesahující 180 kilometrů, rozkládající se mezi širým oceánem a nejdelším horským pásmem na světě, není zemí, jež se snadno mapuje, jak zjistila britská cestovatelka Sara Wheeler, která ji sama se dvěma batohy procestovala odshora až dolů, od nejsušší pouště světa až po mrazivé pustiny Antarktidy. K autorčiným zážitkům v této zemi patří mimo jiné vánoce s lamím sendvičem ve 4000 m.n.m., pobyt v hodinovém hotelu v Santiagu a plavba kolem mysu Horn s rakví na palubě. Její vyprávění je nejen poučné — zeměpisně, historicky i politicky, ale také velmi čtivé a vtipné.

      Chile. Cestování po štíhlé zemi
    • Was mit einer riesigen Panne beginnt – beim Zwischenaufenthalt in Rio wird ihr gesamtes Gepäck gestohlen –, wird zu einer großartigen Landerkundungstour. Sie reist von Norden nach Süden, nimmt die glitzernde Hauptstadt Santiago zum Mittelpunkt und stellt sich den Extremen von Wüste und Gletscher, immer entlang den Anden bis hinunter zur Antarktis. Ihre sympathische Spontaneität bringt Sara Wheeler in Kontakt sowohl mit Menschen der chilenischen Oberschicht als auch mit einfachen Bergbauern. Sie isst und trinkt mit ihnen, besucht politische Gefangene im Gefängnis und ergreift mit der gleichen Selbstverständlichkeit und großen Neugier die Chance, mit Militärs der Luftwaffe in den chilenischen Teil der Antarktis zu fliegen, eine Region, die Touristen üblicherweise verschlossen ist. Entstanden ist so ein facettenreiches Bild vom Leben in Chile, von seinen großartigen Landschaften, die die Menschen prägen, den Spannungen in einer Gesellschaft, die immer noch bevorzugt in Schwarz-Weiß-Kategorien denkt, und nicht zuletzt den schmerzhaften Wunden Einzelner, Opfern des Militärregimes. Und doch überwiegen letztlich Sara Wheelers Impressionen von der Warmherzigkeit der Menschen, die sie trifft, der überwältigenden Gastfreundschaft und dem gegenseitigen Verstehen wollen, das immer wieder zum Ausdruck kommt.

      Unterwegs in einem schmalen Land