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Radical Winter: The Season in Space
From: Winter
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In this chapter, Gopnik examines literary presentations of the extreme environments of the Far North and Far South, tracing polar exploration from Franklin’s lost 1845 expedition to the 1911 Scott and Amundsen race.
Contributors
Adam Gopnik
Adam Gopnik is the author of the international bestseller Paris to the Moon; Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York; Angels and Ages: A Short Book about Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life; and Steps Across the Water. He has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. He is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism and the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he grew up in Montreal, Quebec. From 1995 to 2000, he lived in Paris. He now lives in New York City with his wife and their two children.
