Sara Wheeler

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Sara Wheeler was brought up in Bristol, England, and studied Classics and Modern Languages at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. After writing about her travels on the Greek island of Euboea and in Chile, she was accepted by the US National Science Foundation as their first female writer-in-residence at the South Pole, and spent seven months in Antarctica. In her resultant book Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, she mentioned sleeping in the captain’s bunk in Scott's Hut. Whilst in Antarctica she read The Worst Journey in the World, an account of the Terra Nova Expedition, and she later wrote a biography of its author Apsley Cherry-Garrard. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. From 2005 to 2009 she served as Trustee of the London Library.

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Glowing Still
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Mud and Stars
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Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Access All Areas
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O my America!
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Access all areas
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The Magnetic North
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Magnetic North
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A woman in the polar night
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The magnetic north
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Too close to the sun
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Evia
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Too close to the sun
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Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
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Too Close to the Sun
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Travels in a Thin Country (Abacus travel)
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Chile
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Extreme Aarde
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Cherry
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Terra Incognita
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Cherry
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CHERRY
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Dear Daniel
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Diana-Taschenbücher, Nr.48, Terra Incognita
Representative edition published 1999
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