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Books by Sara Wheeler
  | | O My America!(Illustrated) Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2014 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53478-3, ISBN: 0-374-53478-0 "In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole―camping in Arctic igloos, tracking Indian elephants, contemplating East African swamps so hot that toads explode―but as she stared down the uncharted territory of middle age, she ..." |
 | | Travels in a Thin Country(First Edition) A Journey Through Chile (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1999 by Modern Library ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75365-7, ISBN: 0-375-75365-6 "Squeezed between a vast ocean and the longest mountain range on earth, Chile is 2,600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide--not a country that lends itself to maps, as Sara Wheeler discovered when she traveled alone from the top to the bottom, from the driest desert in the world to the sepulchral wastes of Antarctica. Eloquent, astute, nimble with history and deftly amusing, Travels in a Thin Country established Sara Wheeler as ..." |
 | | The Magnetic North(Reprint) Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53309-0, ISBN: 0-374-53309-1 "A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleMore than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she ..." |
 | | Too Close to the Sun(Reprint) The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Random House Trade Paperbacks ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6892-7, ISBN: 0-8129-6892-1 "A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance a ..." |
 | | Cherry(Reprint) A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Modern Library (Paperback)) by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-375-75454-8, ISBN: 0-375-75454-7 "Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott’s legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey into the Antarctic winter to collect eggs of the Emperor penguin. It was dark all the time, his teeth shattered, and the tent blew away in th ..." |
 | | The Magnetic North(Reprint) Notes from the Arctic Circle by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-20013-8, ISBN: 0-374-20013-0 "A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleMore than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica’s extreme surroundings. Now, Wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive picture of life on the fringes. In The Magnetic North, she ..." |
 | | Cherry(1st Edition) A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard by Sara Wheeler, Illus. With Photos Hardcover, 388 Pages, Published 2002 by Random House Import ISBN-13: 978-0-224-05004-3, ISBN: 0-224-05004-4 |
 | | Mud and Stars Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2020 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-958413-1, ISBN: 0-09-958413-1 |
 | | Mud and Stars(1st Edition) Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-09801-4, ISBN: 0-224-09801-2 "There is a literal Russian landscape, and there is its emotional, literary counterpart. In Mud and Stars, award-winning writer Sara Wheeler sets out to explore both. With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides – Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev, among others – Wheeler travels across eight time zones, from rinsed north-western beetroot fields and far-eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of ethnic soup that is the Caucasus. She ..." |
 | | O, My America! Second Acts in a New World (Hardback) by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-0-224-09070-4, ISBN: 0-224-09070-4 "O, My America! After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as "Terra Incognita" and "The Magnetic North", the author rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. Full description" |
 | | Too Close to the Sun(1st Edition) The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Random House Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-6069-6, ISBN: 1-4000-6069-9 "Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its ..." |
 | | Terra Incognita(1st Edition) Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 350 Pages, Published 1998 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-44078-9, ISBN: 0-679-44078-X "When explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Robert Falcon Scott all set off to Antarctica in the early years of the 20th century, the polar regions were among the last truly unexplored areas of the world--and arguably the least hospitable. Scott lost his life, pinned down in a howling blizzard only 11 miles from his supply depot; Shackleton lost his ship, crushed in the ice. Even those who survived the icy wastes did s ..." |
 | | Mud and Stars Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2019 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-4801-2, ISBN: 1-5247-4801-3 "A witty and insightful tour of contemporary Russia, using its Golden Age writers, from Pushkin to Tolstoy, as guides: part history, part sociopolitical commentary, Mud and Stars reveals the heart of a country that never fails to surprise us."We sit in the mud, my friend, and reach for the stars." --Turgenev, Fathers and SonsIn her award-winning books, Sara Wheeler has transported readers from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, from the An ..." |
 | | O My America! Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-09-954134-9, ISBN: 0-09-954134-3 "Shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book AwardAfter reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.H ..." |
 | | O My America! Six Women and Their Second Acts in a New World by Sara Wheeler Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2013 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-29881-4, ISBN: 0-374-29881-5 "In O My America!, the travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler embarks on a journey across the United States, guided by the adventures of six women who reinvented themselves as they chased the frontier west.Wheeler's career has propelled her from pole to pole―camping in Arctic igloos, tracking Indian elephants, contemplating East African swamps so hot that toads explode―but as she stared down the uncharted territory of middle age, she ..." |
 | | Access All Areas(1st Edition) Selected Writings 1990-2011 by Sara Wheeler, Raymond Ibrahim Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-877-0, ISBN: 0-86547-877-5 "Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers In vivid, urgent books such as "Terra Incognita" and "The Magnetic North," Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to place, and to the people who inhabit them." Access All Areas" collects the best essays and journalism by a writer who has used extreme ..." |
 | | A Chile(Updated) Travels in a Thin Country (Paperback) by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2006 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-12001-0, ISBN: 0-349-12001-3 "This is Sara Wheeler's account of a six-month odyssey which included Christmas Day at 13,000 feet with a llama sandwich, a sex hotel in Santiago and a trip round Cape Horn delivering a coffin." |
 | | Terra Incognita(Updated) by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Vintage/Ebury (A Division Of Random ISBN-13: 978-0-09-973181-8, ISBN: 0-09-973181-9 "After writing two highly praised travel books, Sara Wheeler was accepted by the American government to be the first foreigner on their National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers Program. She spent seven months on the continent, travelling from the fabled Ross Ice Shelf to the Pole itself, the remoter reaches of the West Antarctic ice sheet, and the balmy Antarctic Peninsula. Terra Incognita is a meditation on the lands ..." |
 | | Travels in a thin country(Updated) A journey through Chile (Abacus travel) by Sara Wheeler Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1995 by Abacus ISBN-13: 978-0-349-10584-0, ISBN: 0-349-10584-7 "A Chile The most authorative book available on Chile, now updated with a new 5,000-word introduction. Full description" |
 | | West with the Night(2nd Edition) A Memoir by Beryl Markham, Sara Wheeler Paperback, 293 Pages, Published 2013 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-763-6, ISBN: 0-86547-763-9 "One of the most beautifully crafted books I have ever read, with some of the most poetic prose passages I could imagine, such as the following, resonating with a stately and timeless quality so absent in our modern life: There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city. There is silence after a ra ..." |
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