Product Description

The dazzling landscape central to this multifaceted tale of adventure and aspiration is the white Antarctic vastness known as the Ice. The story told is of an expedition to the South Pole, led by a young, ardent American woman, Morgan Lamont - an expedition inspired and haunted by the tragic journey, eighty years before, of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. For Morgan, Scott's life, his dream, his death, and the very concept of Antarctic navigation are obsessive emblems of the search for integrity in a morally precarious age. Freed by her mother's quixotic and frightening sacrifice and the generosity of a hitherto estranged grandfather, she sets out to fulfil her own dream - to vindicate Scott by recreating his historic polar expedition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2008974 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 1 pages

From Amazon.com
This compelling novel of one woman's personal history and her obsession with the South Pole is all-encompassing and so powerfully written it is almost literally impossible to put down.

From Publishers Weekly
Arthur's epic novel chronicles a modern-day woman whose disgust with society's plundering of the environment leads to her decision to recreate Robert Scott's failed Antarctic expedition of 1910.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
This massive tome of a novel follows Morgan Lamont's journey from childhood, when she first becomes fascinated with the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole by explorer Robert Falcon Scott, to the adult realization of her dream to make the same journey. Morgan's parents divorce when she is young, her father dies, and her stepfather is a cold authoritarian. Unhappy with her Ph.D. studies in history, she eventually reconnects with her paint baron grandfather, who finances the Antarctic trip. Exotic locale and a lot of interesting Antarctic detail make for a mildly entertaining story, but additional editing is definitely needed. The author's participation in the National Science Foundation's "Antarctic Artists and Writers Program" led to her writing this novel, and she seems to be trying to repay the experience in verbiage. For larger fiction collections.
Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Radford, Va.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.