The Nature of Ice

by Mundy, Robyn

• ISBN13: 9781741755763
• ISBN10: 174175576X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-21
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin

Summary

A compelling novel of hope, love, and loss set in the startlingly beautiful landscape of AntarcticaCapricious, the nature of ice; as impetuous as faithless deeds. So easy to forget that sea ice is only a veneer, inherently flawed, skin-deep as desire, so transitory as to be scattered out to sea, displaced by ocean, dispersed by wind--gone in the lapse of a day.Freya has come to Antarctica ostensibly to undertake a photographic expedition to retrace Frank Hurley's iconic photographs--but also to escape a stifling relationship. Once she is there, though, living in the cramped and close confines of Davis Station, the extraordinary world of Antarctica gets under her skin and she starts to unfurl, finding her world change in ways she would never previously had thought possible. Weaving in a vivid recreation of Douglas Mawson's ill-fated 1911-1914 Antarctic expedition into the contemporary story of a woman coming to terms with the end of her marriage, this is a poetic, multi-stranded novel of present and past, hope and tragedy, love and loss. It is not only a love story and a heart-stopping, intensely moving polar adventure story, but also a story of place, bringing to vivid life the extraordinary landscape of Antarctica, the frozen continent that intrigues us all.

Author Biography

Robyn Mundy has been to Antarctica many times, first as an assistant expedition leader for an ecotour company. She spent a summer living and working at Davis Station, Antarctica, as a field assistant and a winter at Mawson Station, Antarctica, where she worked on an emperor penguin project.