false 1189521 5 What on earth could inspire so many men--so many <I>British</I> men, in particular--to brave unimaginable cold, hunger, fear, and physical danger in the planet's most remote and forbidding locales? In the case of many polar explorers, writes Francis Spufford, it was a complicated amalgam--English notions of sportsmanship, heroism, and honor mixed with romantic notions of the sublime. In his <I>I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination</I>, Spufford explores the British obsession with the world's coldest and bleakest climes, using their literary representation as his guide. Although his book gives some historical background about early polar explorations, Spufford concerns himself more with English perceptions of snow and ice than with the snow and ice itself. He considers the writing of Byron, Coleridge, Tennyson, Melville, Mary Shelley, and others, as well as that of the polar explorers themselves, expertly limning how coldness and its metaphors captured the imagination of a generation of Englishmen. Along the way Spufford examines exploration's often unsavory ideological bedfellows, including Victorian views about class, race, and empire. 2003765 1996 I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination total:9|5:4|4:4|2:1| 9 38 32 1 5 0 false false Wed Oct 22 04:23:55 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 04:24:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 22:12:24 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 22:12:24 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 30 08:09:34 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 08:09:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 14:18:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 14:18:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 07:18:15 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 07:18:15 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 21 08:54:29 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 21 08:54:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 11 19:44:42 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 19:44:42 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 11:44:37 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:44:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 11:18:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 11:18:20 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 29 14:25:14 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 14:25:14 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jul 12 15:56:10 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:06:35 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 15:56:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jul 04 12:07:43 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 12:08:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 13 18:44:50 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 18:44:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 21 11:16:06 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 11:16:06 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 24 21:47:30 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 21:47:30 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 24 21:23:38 -0800 2009 Fri Jun 05 14:52:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 10 20:13:31 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 20:13:31 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 07 02:03:07 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 02:03:07 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Mar 05 17:25:41 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:49:51 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 17:25:41 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Dec 20 18:51:41 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:30:38 -0800 2008