Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series) - Softcover

Justin Gardiner (author) & John Griswold (Series Edited By)

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9780820354958: Beneath the Shadow: Legacy and Longing in the Antarctic (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series)

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In February 2010, with the help of a friend who works as a photographer with a National Geographic-sponsored cruise line, Justin Gardiner boarded a ship bound for Antarctica. A stowaway of sorts, Gardiner used his experiences on this voyage as the narrative backdrop for Beneath the Shadow, a compelling firsthand account that breathes new life into the nineteenth-century journals of Antarctic explorers such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, and Captain Roald Amundsen.

Beneath the Shadow is centered on journal excerpts by eight famous explorers, which Gardiner uses as touchstones for modern-day experiences of harsh seas, chance encounters, rugged terrain, and unspeakable beauty. With equal parts levity and lyricism, Gardiner navigates the distance between the historical and the contemporary, the artistic and the scientific, the heroic and the mundane. The bold and tragic tales of Antarctic explorers have long held our collective imagination--almost as much as the mythically remote land such explorers ventured to--and this book makes those voices come to life as few ever have.

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Gardiner writes with a gonzo attitude reminiscent of Hunter S. Thompson, with the comic pace and timing of the classic adventure-travel books of Paul Theroux.--William McKeen "author of Mile Marker Zero: The Moveable Feast of Key West "

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Justin Gardiner is a lecturer of creative writing at Auburn University. His first book of poems has been chosen as a finalist for both the Brittingham/Pollak Prize and the Four Way First Book Prize, among others; and his poems have appeared in journals that include the Missouri Review, Quarterly West, Southern Humanities Review, New South and ZYZZYVA. John Griswold is an assistant professor in the MFA program at McNeese State University and the editor of the McNeese Review. He is the author of the novel A Democracy of Ghosts and of the nonfiction narrative Herrin: The Brief History of an Infamous American City. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

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PublisherThe University of Georgia Press
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ISBN 13 9780820354958
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