Sara Wheeler, Author . Random $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-375-50328-3
In a richly detailed and lyrical biography, Wheeler (Terra Incognito) traces the life of British adventurer Apsley Cherry-Garrard from his time as "a small boy with a lively imagination and a taste for snails and solitude" to his...
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Sara Wheeler, Author . Random $27.95 (292p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6069-6
A superlative athlete with an enormous capacity for friendship and a chronically underachieving, charismatic loner with eternal wanderlust, Denys Finch Hatton (1887–1931) emerged as an iconic figure in the memoirs of two lovers, Karen Blixen
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Sara Wheeler, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-374-20013-8
In her previous book, on Antarctica (Terra Incognita), Wheeler dismissively labeled the Arctic Circle as "the complicated, life-infested North." She changed her stance in 2002, following a trip during which she towed her infant son on a sled while...
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Sara Wheeler, Author Random House (NY) $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-44078-9
Journalist Wheeler (Travels in a Thin Country, on Chile) spent more than two years researching and organizing a seven-month journey to Antarctica, becoming the first foreigner to join the American National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and
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Sara Wheeler, Author Peter Bedrick Books $15.95 (44p) ISBN 978-0-87226-295-9
British author Wheeler whisks children to the globe's most southern land in this conversational distillation of the experiences described in her adult book, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. A letter to her godson, Daniel, provides the focal...
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Sara Wheeler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374298-81-4
British travel writer Wheeler (Terra Incognita) narrates the journeys of six 19th-century Englishwomen whose battles “to be themselves in a man’s world as late middle age loomed” were transformed by their sojourns—and in some instances, immigration—t
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Sara Wheeler. Pantheon, $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4801-2
Wheeler (Chile: Travels in a Thin Country) mixes travelogue and literary history in an entertaining work centered on her fascination with the great Russian writers of the 19th century. Zigzagging across a vast landscape, Wheeler visits sites...
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