"PDF End of the Earth: Voyages To Antarctica
End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness. Magnificently written, the bookevokes an areciation and sympathy for a region as harsh as it is beautiful.Luminous and haunting . . . the contemporary Thoreau.82218212The Wall Street Journal [Matthiessen] doesn8217t waste words, and in End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica, his homage to the austere splendor of that frozen continent, he hasn8217t deployed a single one whose choice I would care to take issue with. . . . Matthiessen writes crusty, chiseled sentences that demand to be read slowly8212the perfect prose equivalent of the landscapes he8217s describing.82218212The New York Times Book Review Matthiessen and polar landscapes seem perfectly suited. . . . I found myself constantly
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