The Novel Bunch Group will meet at 2 p.m. in the Marvin Library Multipurpose Room (2nd floor) on Monday, February 27th to explore “Antarctica: Life on the Ice” (Travelers’ Tales Guides) by Susan Fox Rogers.
Antarctica’s legend as a fascinating, forbidding place is confirmed and expanded in these insider articles. Covering everything from “Happy Camper School” to washing dishes to what it’s like to fall in love in a place where the sun never goes down (or never comes up), these articles limn a world of colorful characters (human and otherwise) and breathtaking backdrops. The humor runs high here in work by Karen Joyce, who recounts an odd afternoon when it “rained chickens,” and Glenn Grant, who riffs on the dreaded “psych test.” Some of the contributors are award-winning travel writers: Bill Fox, for example, leads a pithy tour through the remote base McMurdo, while Lucy Bledsoe tells of looking for krill and finding dinosaur bones instead. Other contributors are newbies, who vividly conjure the region’s extraordinary sights, from gale-force winds and magnificent glaciers to mummified seals and charming penguins.
Author Susan Fox Rogers will be on campus Thursday, March 2 as part of Voices: A Library Lecture Series to share her experiences living at McMurdo Station in Antarctica and on the ship Antigua in the Arctic.
All are welcome!
For more information contact Anne LaBelle at 629-7384 or a.labelle@hvcc.edu.
Published: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:41:02 +0000 by v.waldin