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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 »39; -- and history is what you can remember.
"I May Be Some Time" is about the poles as they have been perceived, dreamed, even desired. It explores myth as myth, showing how Scott's death was the culmination to a long-running national enchantment with vast empty spaces, the beauty of untrodden snow, and perilous journeys to the ends of the earth.« less