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I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination
I May Be Some Time Ice and the English Imagination
Author: Francis Spufford
A richly engrossing cultural history of our obsession with ice, Eskimos and polar exploration. When Captain Scott died in 1912 on his way back from the South Pole, his story became a myth embedded in the national imagination. Everyone remembers the doomed Captain Oates's last words -- 'I'm just going outside, and I may be some time&#...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780571179510
ISBN-10: 0571179517
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 372
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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