Sara Wheeler

Sara Diane Wheeler (born March 20, 1961 in Bristol , United Kingdom ) is a British travel writer, biographer and journalist. She was best known for her non-fiction books and reports on the Arctic and Antarctic .

Life

Wheeler grew up in Bristol. She chose classical and modern languages ​​as subjects at Brasenose College , Oxford.

After she had published volumes of essays on her travels to Evia in Greece and Chile , she received a grant from the US National Science Foundation for a seven-month stay in Antarctica. This resulted in the book Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (German: Terra incognita Reisen in der Antarktis ). During those months she read The Worst Journey in the World , an account of the Terra Nova Expedition . She later wrote a biography about its author Apsley Cherry-Garrard . In 1996 she wrote a children's book about her summer in Antarctica for her godchild, Daniel, who was nine at the time.

In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature . On the occasion of exactly one hundred years of the Scottish Terra Nova Expedition, she told the biographical stories of five participants in a five-part Whistledown Production series on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012 . The episodes aired January 9-13, 2012.

From 2005 to 2009 she was a trustee (board member) of the London Library .

To write the book The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle , Wheeler spent two years in Alaska, Greenland, Northern Norway and Siberia. The non-fiction essay was included in the Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 list.

Works

Travel essays

• Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island , 1992, Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2007 ISBN 978-1-84511-340-7
• Chile: Travels in a Thin Country , 1994, ISBN 0-375-75365-6 , Modern Library Pb 1999 ISBN 978-0-375-75365-7
  • On the move in a narrow country: a woman conquers the extreme landscapes of Chile , translated from English by Ruth Sander, Heyne, Munich 1996. ISBN 3-453-08319-9
• Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica , 1997, Modern Library Pb 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-75338-1
  • Terra incognita: Travels in the Antarctic , translated from the English by Ruth Sander, Diana, Heyne, Munich and Zurich 1999. ISBN 3-453-15272-7
• The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2009. ISBN 0-374-20013-0
  • Life in the Arctic , Malik National Geographic, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-492-40451-8
• Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010 , North Point Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-86547-877-0

Biographies

• Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard , Jonathan Cape, London 2001. ISBN 0-375-50328-5
• Too Close to the Sun. The life and times of Denys Finch Hatton , Vintage Books, London 2007. ISBN 978-0-09-945027-6

Books for children and young readers

• Dear Daniel: Letters from Antarctica , Macdonald Young Books (UK), 1997. ISBN 978-0-7500-2144-9
  • Greetings from Antarctica , Peter Bedrick (US), 1999

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fellow List ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Royal Society of Literature, accessed August 20, 2012 
2. ↑ BBC Radio 4 Programs - To Strive and Seek , BBC Online, accessed August 20, 2012
3. ^ The London Library and The London Library Trust Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2009-2010 , PDF from the London Library, accessed August 20, 2012
4. ^ Polar Distress , New York Times review by Holly Morris, February 4, 2011, accessed August 20, 2012
5. ↑ The Magnetic North - Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler: review , review by Gill Hornby in the Telegraph of September 26, 2009, accessed August 20, 2012
6. ↑ Non Fiction Titles , theglobeandmail.com, accessed August 20, 2012
7. ↑ unromantic Arctic - Sara Wheeler: Life in the Arctic , review by Günther Wessel in Germany Kultur of 20 August 2012 accessed August 20, 2012
8. ↑ The nice man cometh - Sara Wheeler's biography of the reserved but passionate polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard , review by Lucy Moore in the Observer of November 4, 2001, accessed August 20, 2012