it seems unlikely that they were in a strict sense personal feelings. Grace Scott seems confident that she is naming well-known, indeed conventional stimuli to feeling when she mentions 'the call of the vast empty spaces', 'the Steve Almond once wrote an essay, “Camoin Among the Savages,” about one of my mentors François Camoin, who was giving away his books out of a cardboard box in the trunk of his car. About twenty-five years after British Birds first appeared, when it was an established classic and an ornament to any educated household, the many real children who had read it were joined by a fictional child. Hidden behind the curtain of a window-seat This book is an attempt to construct an outline of such a history. Implicit in it is the assumption that ideas lose their form when they decay, yet do not necessarily lose their place in the mentality of an age. They turn to imaginative compost. Complex

of the data of polar discovery a stuff of conventional imagination. While it is easy to uncover particular nineteenth-century manifestations of imaginative interest in polar matters -- like, for example, the huge Arctic diorama created Thanks to everyone who works so hard to make this festival happen, especially the people I’ve worked with personally: Karolina, Margaret, and Kenna, and of course Jo Croston who makes this whole world spin.

Richard Lea (19 March 2019). "Francis Spufford pens unauthorised Narnia novel". The Guardian . Retrieved 21 March 2019. I don’t think very much, not at all really, about who my audience is, who might be reading whatever it is I’m writing, or what I’m trying to convince them of, beyond continuing to read. I follow my nose.

a b Danuta Kean (8 May 2017). "Francis Spufford wins the Ondaatje prize with Golden Hill". The Guardian . Retrieved 8 May 2017. determinism informs this history, causing judgements of failure and success to spring from, not hindsight, but an eerily perfect rationality. Gradually, gradually, the lines on the map representing the different expeditions -- sometimes Scott is almost certain to get to the Pole and it is something to say you were with the first party. The climate is very healthy although inclined to be cold ...' My wife has the double misfortune to be married to a climber and writer.The climber lives in the mountains and the writer, this one anyway, spends a lot of time in his own head.a previous expedition's hut, 'an incomplete copy of Stanley Weyman's My Lady Rotha; it was carefully thawed out and read by everybody; and the excitement was increased by the fact that the end of the book was missing' John Charles Dollman (1851-1934), 'A Very Gallant Gentleman' (Captain L.E.G. Oates walking out to his death in the blizzard, on Captain Scott's return journey from the South Pole, March 1912)". Christie's . Retrieved 19 January 2020. Unapologetic, 2012, translated into Dutch as Dit is Geen Verdediging, 2013, into Spanish as Impenitente and German as Heilige (Un)Vernunft!, 2014. apt for the austerity era. The myth had a quiescent period in the 1950s and 1960s, when it held a secure if shrunken position as a perfectly typical subject for a Ladybird book for children. But it metamorphosed, rather than died, on the John Ezard (14 October 2002). "Antarctic hero Oates 'fathered child with girl of 12' ". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 8 October 2011.

out of time and out of society, in a world peopled only by themselves. What's more, that world -- at least as we experience it through print -- is at times even structured like the world of myth, of legend, of moral tales. As it is he certainly did not anticipate, and his pictures, whose 'gaiety' and 'humour' elude her completely. One

On 4 January 1910, after a miserable journey in heavy seas, during which Scott’s ship the Terra Nova was almost overwhelmed, the expedition arrived at Cape Evans in Antarctica. Oates’ comment was typically matter of fact ‘I can’t remember having a worse time. I was drenched all night, the water continually pouring over the forecastle in a regular torrent.’ Polar medal now in regimental museum" The Evening Press 13 September 1999". Archive.thisisyork.co.uk . Retrieved 8 October 2011.