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On Blue Ice: A Not Very Brave Journey to Antarctica
New Zealanders are deeply attached to Antarctica - it's part of our psyche, our collective imagination. It's also territorially part of our country, but very few of us get to go there.
Kim Griggs is one who did. In 'On Blue Ice' she tells what it's like to be an ordinary person in an extraordinary land.
Her frank and amusing account of everyday survival in Antarctica makes you feel as if you are there. The glorious colour photographs, which range from tourist shots to scientific experiments to panoramas of the continent's ice and snow, add to this.
'On Blue Ice' is also about how New Zealand explorers and scientists have contributed to our idea of Antarctica, and why the frozen continent continues to have such an influence on so many New Zealanders.
For Kim, a journalist for the past 20 years, casual curiosity about a large iceberg has become an enduring passion for an entire continent. She still, however, fumbles when putting on a pair of crampons.
Kim Griggs is one who did. In 'On Blue Ice' she tells what it's like to be an ordinary person in an extraordinary land.
Her frank and amusing account of everyday survival in Antarctica makes you feel as if you are there. The glorious colour photographs, which range from tourist shots to scientific experiments to panoramas of the continent's ice and snow, add to this.
'On Blue Ice' is also about how New Zealand explorers and scientists have contributed to our idea of Antarctica, and why the frozen continent continues to have such an influence on so many New Zealanders.
For Kim, a journalist for the past 20 years, casual curiosity about a large iceberg has become an enduring passion for an entire continent. She still, however, fumbles when putting on a pair of crampons.
- GenresNonfiction
156 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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