A lively, entertaining book describing author Jenny Diski's trip around the edges of America by train. She meditates on the landscape, the people she meets, on being a diehard smoker and on solitude.
Acclaimed author Jenny Diski describes her journey to Antarctica. A humorous and evocative travelogue, which is also a cool appraisal of her dysfunctional childhood, a history of the region and a meditation on memory amid a landscape of ice and snow.
A tremendously insightful, entertaining and engaging look at the animal kingdom, which draws on an impressive range of philosophic, scientific and literary material to analyse the ways in which humans have studied, treated and written about the creatures with whom we share the planet.