Sara Wheeler
Sara Diane Wheeler ( born March 20, 1961 in Bristol, United Kingdom) is a British travel writer, biographer and journalist. She became famous especially with her essays and reports on the Arctic and Antarctic.
Life
Wheeler grew up in Bristol. As subjects she chose classical and modern languages at Brasenose College, Oxford.
After publishing the essay volumes about their trips in Euboea in Greece and Chile, she received from the U.S. National Science Foundation a grant of a seven -month stay in Antarctica. From the book Terra Incognita was: Travels in Antarctica ( German: Terra Incognita Travel in Antarctica ). During these months she read the book The Worst Journey in the World, a report on the Terra Nova expedition. About the Author Apsley Cherry - Garrard she later wrote a biography. For her then nine -year-old godson Daniel 1996 she wrote a children's book about her summer in Antarctica.
In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. On the occasion of the centenary of Scott 's Terra Nova Herseins the expedition she told in January 2012 in a five-part Whistle Down Production series on BBC Radio 4 biographical stories of five participants. The consequences has been sent 9 to 13 January, 2012.
From 2005 to 2009 she was a Trustee ( Board member ) of the London Library.
To the book The Magnetic North: Writing Notes from the Arctic Circle, Wheeler spent two years in Alaska, Greenland, northern Norway and Siberia go. The nonfiction essay was included in the list Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011.
Works
- Evia: Travels on to Undiscovered Greek Iceland, 1992, Tauris Parke Paperbacks 2007 ISBN 978-1845113407
- Chile: Travels in a Thin Country, 1994, ISBN 0-375-75365-6, Modern Library 1999 ISBN 978-0375753657 Pb Travelling in a small country: a woman overcomes the extreme landscapes of Chile, from the English by Ruth Sander, Heyne, München ISBN 3-453-08319-9, 1996.
- Terra incognita: travels in Antarctica, from the English by Ruth Sander, Diana, Heyne, Munich and Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-453-15272-7.
- Life in the Arctic, Malik, National Geographic, Munich, 2012. ISBN 978-3-492-40451-8
- Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry - Garrard, Jonathan Cape, London 2001, ISBN 0-375-50328-5.
- Too Close to the Sun. The life and times of Denys Finch Hatton, Vintage Books, London, 2007. ISBN 978-0-099-45027-6
- Dear Daniel: Letters from Antarctica, Macdonald Young Books ( UK), 1997, ISBN 978-0750021449. Greetings from Antarctica, Peter Bedrick (U.S. ), 1999