The Explorer's Daughter
A Young Englishwoman Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood
Kari Herbert(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 26. January 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
368 pages
978-0-14-101149-3 (ISBN)
Description
For the first two years of her life, Kari Herbert lived with her mother and father, the explorer Sir Wally Herbert, among the Inuit people in the vast snowy wastes of the High Arctic. Her first words were Inuktun, her first friends, the children of hunters, and the pull of the place and its people lured the family back several times during her childhood. Then in 2002 she returned to the Arctic alone. "The Explorer's Daughter" tells the story of her return to this place of savage beauty, where her childhood friends still hunt with ferocious huskies and eat bloody whale meat; and where she rediscovers a compelling world where light and darkness dominate life, and where past and present uneasily coexist.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps, ports.
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
272 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-101149-3 (9780141011493)
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Person
Kari Herbert was born in 1970. She is a travel writer and photographer and has contributed to several British newspapers and magazines including the Sunday Times, the Independent and the Observer and has had two solo exhibitions of her photography. She is currently at work on her next book, The Heroes Heart: The Women Behind Polar Explorers. She lives in London.