A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleMore than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselli
More Than A Decade Ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to f
Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writersIn vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutal
After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, the author rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across th
Squeezed 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 that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discover
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 an
Using its greatest writers as a guide, an award-winning travel writer conducts a witty and immersive tour of contemporary Russia, illuminating the country in all its confusions and contradictions in a