DOC The Confessions of Nat Turner: and Related Documents (Bedford Series in History Culture) by Nat Turner; Kenneth S. Greenberg in History

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Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris; writing in The Times; called; "A truly majestic work of scholarship; thought and literary imagination . . ." The title; a last quote from one explorer to his party as he left their tent never to return; embodies the danger and mystery that fueled the romantic allure of the poles and; subsequently; the British imagination. Far from being a conventional history of polar exploration; I May Be Some Time attempts to understand what was going on in the minds of the polar explorers as they headed toward destinies like Terra Nova. Serving up a heady brew of Captain Perry; Jane Eyre; gastronomic obsessions with iced desserts; and the daily lives of Eskimos; Spufford treats the reader to one of the most satisfying and imaginative contemporary works dealing with exploration and human need.