Sara L Wheeler

West with the Night

A new edition ofa great, underappreciated classic of our timeBeryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a me...

Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011

Adventures in going forth and staying putfrom one of our greatest travel writersInvivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to p...

Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The first authorized biography of the antarctic explorer who gave us the greatest classic of polar literatureIn February 1912, Apsley Cherry-Garrard drove a team of dogs 150 miles to a desolate outpost on Antarctica’s rough ice shelf to meet Robert Falcon Scott and his men, who were expected to retu...

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

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 j...

O My America!: Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World

In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.Wheeler’s career has propelled her from pole to pole—camping in Arctic igloos, tracking Indi...

Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island (Tauris Parke Paperback)

The seahorse-shaped island of Evia – Euboia in classical history and Negroponte for many centuries – is the second largest in Greece, yet it is almost completely undiscovered by tourists. Separated from the mainland by only a sliver of sea, Evia has had a turbulent history. Today it encapsulates the...

Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010

In a series of remarkable books - Travels in a Thin Country, Terra Incognita, Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry Garrard, Too Close to the Sun and The Magnetic North - Sara Wheeler has shown that she is not only one of the finest travel writers of her generation but a very fine biographer too. Publishe...

The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle

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, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica’s extreme...

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Travels in a Thin Country

An Island Apart: Travels in Evia

Travels in a Thin Country

An Island Apart: Travels in Evia

Cherry : A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica