Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler | |
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| Born | 20 March 1961 Bristol,United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Travel writer |
| Alma mater | Oxford University(BA) |
| Subject | Polar expeditions |
Sara Diane WheelerFRSL(born 20 March 1961) is an English travel author andbiographer,noted for her accounts of polar regions.
Biography[edit]
Sara Wheeler was brought up inBristol,England, and studied Classics and Modern Languages atBrasenose College,University of Oxford.After writing about her travels on the Greek island ofEuboeaand inChile,she was accepted by theUS National Science Foundationas their first female writer-in-residence at theSouth Pole,and spent seven months inAntarctica.
In her resultant bookTerra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica,she mentioned sleeping in the captain’s bunk inScott's Hut.[1]Whilst in Antarctica she readThe Worst Journey in the World,an account of theTerra Nova Expedition,and she later wrote abiographyof its author,Apsley Cherry-Garrard.[2]
In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Literature.[3]From 2005 to 2009 she served as Trustee of theLondon Library.[4]
She was frequently abroad for two years, travelled to Russia, Alaska, Greenland, Canada and North Norway to write her bookThe Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic.Ajournalistat theDaily Telegraphin the UK called it a "snowstorm of historical, geographical and anthropological facts".[5]
In a 2012BBC Radio 4series:To Strive and Seek,she told the personal stories of five various members of theTerra Nova Expedition.[6]
O My America!: Second Acts in a New Worldrecords the lives of women who travelled to America in the first half of the 19th century:Fanny Trollope,Fanny Kemble,Harriet Martineau,Rebecca Burlend,Isabella Bird,andCatherine Hubback,and the author's travels in pursuit of them.[7]
Travel books[edit]
- Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island(1992)ISBN0-356-20367-0
- Chile: Travels in a Thin Country(1994)ISBN0-375-75365-6
- Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica(1997)ISBN0-375-75338-9
- The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic(2010)ISBN0-374-20013-0
- Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990–2010(2011)ISBN0-224-09071-2
- Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age(2019)ISBN9-781-5247-48012
Biography books[edit]
- Cherry: A Life ofApsley Cherry-Garrard(2002)ISBN0-375-50328-5
- Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times ofDenys Finch Hatton(2006)ISBN0-8129-6892-1
- O My America!: Second Acts in a New World(2013)ISBN978-0-22409-070-4
Children's book[edit]
- Dear Daniel: Letters from Antarctica(1997)ISBN0-416-23690-1
References[edit]
- ^Wheeler, Sara (1997).Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica.p. 297.
- ^Lucy Moore (4 November 2001)."The nice man cometh Sara Wheeler brings her Antarctic experience to bear on her biography of the reserved but passionate polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard".The Observer.Retrieved22 August2012.
- ^"All Fellows:W".Royal Society of Literature. Archived fromthe originalon 12 March 2010.Retrieved19 February2012.
- ^"The London Library and The London Library Trust Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2009–2010"(PDF).The London Library.Retrieved19 February2012.
- ^Gill Hornby (26 September 2009)."The Magnetic North – Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler: review".The Telegraph.Retrieved22 August2012.
- ^"BBC Radio 4 Programmes – To Strive and Seek".BBC Online.Retrieved19 February2012.
- ^Sattin, Anthony."O My America! by Sara Wheeler".The Spectator.Retrieved16 March2013.
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