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By (author) Jenny Diski; By (author) Diski Jenny

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Skating to Antarctica” is both an intimate memoir and a captivating travelogue of a journey to the bottom of the world.

”I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . . I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like” EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn”t You Just Do What You Were Told?)

This strange and brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski”s journey to Antarctica, intercut with another journey into her own heart and soul . . . a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom and over and over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation and vividof the natural world. While Diski”s writing is laconic, her images are haunting.

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Biographical note
Jenny Diski is the author of eight novels and two memoirs: SKATING TO ANTARCTICA and STRANGER ON A TRAIN. She lives in Cambridge.

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Observer – ”Skating to Antarctica is a fascinating, moving account of two voyages . Diski”s book shines out for its wit, lack of self-pity and strong interest inHelen Dunmore, Express – ”A non-fiction masterpiece.”She – ”This extraordinary account of a journey to the most barren outer reaches of the planet becomes a beautiful, complex symbol: it”s a voyage of self-dis