Bridging both travel and nature writing, Empire Antarctica is an eloquent, exquisitely written narrative of one man, a lonely continent and the reassuring presence of Emperor penguins.
Gavin Francis spent fourteen months as a medical doctor 'wintering' at Halley Base, a profoundly isolated research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. Attracted by the prospect of solitude and silence – the base is unreachable for ten months of the year – it also a rare opportunity to explore the world of the Emperor Penguin, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic.
As we move through the year -- from the months of constant sunshine to the three and half months of starlight -- Francis guides us through the moods and manners of Antarctic living. Amid the cold, ice and blankness of the landscape, where the legends and myths of Shackleton, Scott, Cherry-Garrard and Admiral Byrd still loom large, Francis explores the physical and mental hardship of living at temperatures of-50°C, and the unexpected reassurance that the penguin community brings in this desolate yet awe-inspiring landscape.
Empire Antarctica is a book to luxuriate in: effortlessly blending travel writing with meditative thought and a profound sensitivity to the natural world, in an enchanting and evocative narrative.
‘Empire Antarctica is a beautiful, profound and highly readable account of a remarkable personal adventure. Francis’s pacing is deft, his prose vivid, his research worn lightly. Empire Antarctica is surely destined to be a standard, not so much of travel as of staying still.’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Out of his spell in the white kingdom he has fashioned a book full of wonder. Brilliantly imagined, superbly brought to life, it is a worthy companion to Francis’s earlier journey in the Artic and to Sara Wheeler’s Terra Incognita’ – Sunday Times,Travel Book of the Month
‘…an awe-inspiring memoir of a modern-day pioneer who writes with a poetic style and descriptive flourish that is part education, part enthrallment and wholly entertaining.’ – Daily Record
EMPIRE ANTARCTICA - ICE, SILENCE & EMPEROR PENGUINS
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 2012 IN THE UK BY CHATTO & WINDUS
TO BE PUBLISHED 2013 IN THE U.S.A BY COUNTERPOINT PRESS
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Tom Burgis, korespondent Financial Times'a, przygotowuje swoją debiutancką książkę, poświęconą przemysłowi naftowemu w Afryce. Premiera jest planowana na początek 2014 r.
From the oil-slicked creeks of the Niger Delta to Congo’s war-torn east, Africa’s dazzling endowment of natural resources has brought the continent little but strife. The resources make fortunes for multinational oil and mining companies, middlemen and members of Africa’s fabulously wealthy elites. Tom Burgis exposes how the resource industries have hollowed out the states where the stuff is found. Built on corruption, violence and fear, the trade supplies the global economy with its basic ingredients: the minerals that go into everything from mobile phone batteries to aircraft, the fuels that keep the lights shining and the cars driving, the profits that sustain and world’s richest companies and their shareholders. "The Looting Machine" is an investigative journey to meet the embezzlers and executives, the mining barons and militiamen who control modern-day resource empires, and to hear the stories of those who live under them.
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The first in an illustrated middle-grade series as hilarious and original as DIARY OF WIMPY KID
Hal hates history class—it literally bores him to tears. But his father is a big history buff, and unless Hal gets a good grade this year, he’ll never get his own room. Sixth grade gets off to a horrible start when Hal’s history teacher gives the class an assignment to write journals that will be buried in a time capsule at the end of the year. Things get even worse when his dad makes him take his neighbor’s old shopping cart to school, earning him the nickname “Cartboy.” What else could possibly go wrong for Cartboy? Read Hal’s journal to find out!
Filled with photos, drawings, and utterly original timelines, Hal’s time capsule journal chronicles a year in the historic, hysterical life of Cartboy in this laugh-out-loud debut novel.
L.A. Campbell grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Colorado, graduating with a degree in Journalism. She started her own ad agency, which won awards for work on such brands as Comedy Central and New York Magazine. "Cartboy and the Time Capsule" is her first book. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
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The film version of Shannon Hale's AUSTENLAND has been accepted into competition at Sundance Film Festival!
Jane is a young New York woman who can never seem to find the right man—perhaps because of her secret obsession with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in the BBC adaptation of Pride and Predjudice. When a wealthy relative bequeaths her a trip to an English resort catering to Austen-obsessed women, however, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency-era gentleman suddenly become realer than she ever could have imagined. Is this total immersion in a fake Austenland enough to make Jane kick the Austen obsession for good, or could all her dreams actually culminate in a Mr. Darcy of her own?
Film adaptation
"Austenland" (U.S.-U.K.) -- Directed by Jerusha Hess, written by Hess and Shannon Hale. A thirtysomething woman obsessed with Mr. Darcy from "Pride and Prejudice" sees her fantasies come to life at an English resort. Features Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge, Georgia King and James Callis.
More news: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062785
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Ogłoszono listę 100 tegorocznych książek, które zdaniem redaktorów NYT Book Rewiev zasługują na największą uwagę. Poniżej podajemy tytuły, do których reprezentujemy prawa. Materiały recenzenckie czekają!
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review.
FICTION & POETRY
1. ARCADIA. By Lauren Groff. (Voice/Hyperion, $25.99.) Groff’s lush and visual second novel begins at a rural commune, and links that utopian past to a dystopian, post-global-warming future.
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2. BEAUTIFUL RUINS. By Jess Walter. (Harper/HarperCollins, $25.99.) Walter’s witty sixth novel, set largely in Hollywood, reveals an American landscape of vice, addiction, loss and disappointed hopes.
Polski wydawca: Sonia Draga
3. BRING UP THE BODIES. By Hilary Mantel. (Macrae/Holt, $28.) Mantel’s sequel to “Wolf Hall” traces the fall of Anne Boleyn, and makes the familiar story fascinating and suspenseful again.
Polski wydawca: Sonia Draga
4. BY BLOOD. By Ellen Ullman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.) This smart, slippery novel is a narrative striptease, as a professor listens in on the sessions between the therapist next door and her patients.
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5. CARRY THE ONE. By Carol Anshaw. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) Anshaw pays close attention to the lives of a group of friends bound together by a fatal accident in this wry, humane novel, her fourth.
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6. DEAR LIFE: Stories. By Alice Munro. (Knopf, $26.95.) This volume offers further proof of Munro’s mastery, and shows her striking out in the direction of a new, late style that sums up her whole career.
Polski wydawca: Wydawnicto Literackie
7. HOW SHOULD A PERSON BE? By Sheila Heti. (Holt, $25.) The narrator (also named Sheila) and her friends try to answer the question in this novel’s title.
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8. SWIMMING HOME. By Deborah Levy. (Bloomsbury, paper, $14.) In this spare, disturbing and frequently funny novel, a troubled young woman tests the marriages of two couples.
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NONFICTION
1. ALL WE KNOW: Three Lives. By Lisa Cohen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) The vanished world of midcentury upper-class lesbians is portrayed as beguiling, its inhabitants members of a stylish club.
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2. KAYAK MORNING: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats. By Roger Rosenblatt. (Ecco/HarperCollins, paper, $13.99.) This thoughtful meditation on the evolution of grief over time asks the big questions.
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3. MEMOIR OF A DEBULKED WOMAN: Enduring Ovarian Cancer. By Susan Gubar. (Norton, $24.95.) A feminist scholar recounts her experience and criticizes the medical treatment of a frightening disease in a voice that is straightforward and incredibly brave.
Polski wydawca: MILLENNIUM