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[8j (Q) (Q) � § 1 (Q) mJ @li® ANTARCTIC� "Antarctica is the highest continent. as well as the driest. the coldest and the windiest. and nobody owns it."-Sara Wheeler. Terra Incognita TIME ON ICE A Winter Voyage to Antarctica By Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke (International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press) "To actually understand it [Antarctica]. we would have to stay a full cycle. a year or more. call it home." Many people have romantic fascinations with Antarctica. Others would love to visit it for a couple of weeks. But few have taken their ice-lust as far as Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, who sailed from Sweden to the Antarctic Peninsula expressly to spend the win ter in its frigid environment. Well, the couple got much more than a winter: They were held captive for 14 months, their 40-foot sail boat frozen into anchorage in the Antarctic ice. Time on Ice is an account of these cold months. "Note: The word Eskimo (or Esquimeaux) is a European derivative from the Cree Indian language to the south meaning ARCTI C "eater of raw meat." with derogatory connotation. In the naming of themselves. the Eskimo people generally prefer Inuit. which means simply. The People."-Alvah Simon. North to the Night . COLD OCEANS Adventures in Kayak. Rowboat and Dogsled By John Turk (HarperColiins) "'n the high Arctic. the cold can be so intense that the moisture in your eyes 7 ... freezes to form tiny icicles between your upper and lower lashes ... the sunlight refracts through the crystals and spreads dancing rainbows across your retina." __ �"'''''.AႀiAl�ႀ'' So begins John Turk's travelogue, a series of kayak, rowboat and dogsled adventures. Turk's journeys through wild places-around Cape Horn, into the Northwest Passage. up the east coast of Baffin Island and along an ancient Inuit migration route in Greenland-test his restless spirit. Turk listened to the land, its people and its ghosts to chronicle his journeys in Cold Oceans. TERRA INCOGNITA Travels in Antarctica By Sara Wheeler (Random House) ,aAVIL' IN AMTA.eTICA " ... for me Antarctica was always a space of the imag ination-before. during and after my own journey." Eighty years after Ernest Shackleton first set out to explore Antarctica. Sara Wheeler embarked on her own pilgrimage: she lived and traveled around the frozen continent for several months. In Terra Incognita, Antarctica-a land explored most often by men-is expressed from a female perspective. Wheeler attempts to capture the mystery and motivation behind countless expeditions to earth's iciest wilderness. NORTH TO THE NI GHT A Year in the Arctic Ice By Alvah Simon (McGraw Hill) "We call them explorers. but I knew that look in their eyes. They were seekers. and that is a different thing." Initially driven by his dreams of the Arctic, Alvah Simon sailed north only to end up at the mercy of it. � """= . � , .� -' , - II " \,! ALVAH SIMON Alone and stuck in the Canadian Arctic ice-a hundred miles from the nearest Inuit village-Simon faced win ter from within the meager shelter of his 30-foot sail boat. "In seven months the ice will break up, and I will attempt an escape to the south-that is, if the ice breaks up this year. If it does not, I will face another year in this frozen wilderness north of Baffin Island."