Karen Blixen’s 1937 memoir on building a life in Kenya – penned following her unhappy return to Denmark
Explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1919 book documents his final big expedition, where he journeys to Antarctica from 1914 to 1917 in an attempt to carry out the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent
To stand at the North Pole is to look south in every direction, to have a foot in every time zone and reflect on what it’s like to be hundreds of miles from the nearest person. The nuclear icebreaker just adds to the fun…
