Sara Wheeler

Sara Wheeler Sara Diane Wheeler (born 20 March 1961) is an English travel author and biographer. In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Quotes ... The Arctic is the lead player in the drama of climate change, and polar bears are its poster boys. https://books.google.com/books?id=nzw8g-DcPJgC&pg=PA4 The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle 978-1-4299-9194-0 Wheeler Sara February 2011 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1st edition 2009) (quote from p. 4) ... Throughout my writing life, travel has lent a vehicle in which to explore the inner terrain of fears and desires we stumble through every day. Writing about travel allowed flexibility and freedom within a rigid frame of train journeys, weather, and a knackered tent. The creative process is an escape from personality (T. S. Eliot said that), and so is the open road. And a journey goes in fits and starts, like life. https://books.google.com/books?id=udEs81ERQEAC&pg=PR14 Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011 978-0-86547-878-7 Wheeler Sara 22 January 2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (quote from p. xiv) What no one ever quite gets used to is the brutalizing effect of the wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour (12 knots). Extremely high winds, common all over Antarctica and terrifyingly swift to arrive, can freeze exposed flesh in seconds. That, effectively, is what constitutes frostbite, not initially a highly dangerous injury but one that can soon become fatal if untreated. https://books.google.com/books?id=wJB5BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica 978-0-8041-5242-6 Wheeler Sara October 2014 Random House Publishing (quote from pp. 9–10) I am very much a generalist as opposed to a specialist. It's rather unfashionable, but I feel someone's got to be one. So every book is a new departure. Access All Areas In Conversation with Sara Wheeler July 22, 2017 HKTDC, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA9HL2nnvBE&t=118s (quote at 1:58 of 1:15:22) ... One scholar says Tolstoy tells us to give away our money; Dostoevsky tells us to go to church; Chekhov says "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do"; Gogol says "To hell with it." But they all deal with a fumbling search for certainties with which we all engage. And they are failures in one sense or another, as we all are. Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=p0mHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT10 Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age 978-1-5247-4802-9 Wheeler Sara 5 November 2019 Knopf Doubleday Publishing Quotes about Sara Wheeler The travel writer Sara Wheeler prefers to travel alone. If she didn’t, you’d instantly volunteer to be her travelling companion. She’s an absolute hoot. But also deadly serious, fabulously well-read, thoughtful, self-deprecating – everything you’d want while slowly crossing some vast continent by bus or by train. Ian Sansom, Glowing Still by Sara Wheeler review: funny, furious writing from the queen of intrepid travel 1 March 2023 The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/glowing-still-sara-wheeler-review-funny-furious-writing-queen/ External links Category:1961 births Category:Living people Category:Biographers from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Women authors from England Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Travel writers