Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011
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Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers
In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to place, and to the people who inhabit them.
Access All Areas collects the best essays and journalism by a writer who has used extreme travel as a means to explore an inner landscape. Ranging from Albania to the Arctic, Wheeler attends a religion seminar aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and defrosts her underwear inside an igloo. She treks to distant Tierra del Fuego—"a place where nothing ever happened"—and to the swamps of Malawi, a place so hot that toads explode. She crosses dubious borders with nothing but a kidney donor card for ID and learns to wing walk and belly dance, though not at the same time.
Charming, scathing, restless, and eternally amused, the writer we meet in Access All Areas has spent a lifetime investigating roots and rootlessness. Seeking only to satisfy her own curiosity, Wheeler shows us the world.
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Sara Wheeler. (2013). Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2011. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Adventures in going forth and staying put from one of our greatest travel writers
In vivid, urgent books such as Terra Incognita and The Magnetic North, Sara Wheeler reckoned with the allure and brutality of life on the fringes, exploring distant lands with an extraordinary sensitivity to history, to place, and to the people who inhabit them.
Access All Areas collects the best essays and journalism by a writer who has used extreme travel as a means to explore an inner landscape. Ranging from Albania to the Arctic, Wheeler attends a religion seminar aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and defrosts her underwear inside an igloo. She treks to distant Tierra del Fuego—"a place where nothing ever happened"—and to the swamps of Malawi, a place so hot that toads explode. She crosses dubious borders with nothing but a kidney donor card for ID and learns to wing walk and belly dance, though not at the same time.
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"Smashing . . . An informative and ultimately tragic tour of a region in the throes of drastic change."
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October 15, 2012
An assortment of essays, reviews, and excerpts from British travel writer and biographer Wheeler (The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, 2012, etc.). Spanning 20 years (1990-2010), the pieces are loosely organized around a number of different themes, such as recollections from her earliest travels (most notably as a 20-year-old in Poland in 1981) and her first excursions into the polar regions (an interest that has spawned two travel books, a biography and a children's book). She has a number of short biographical essays on others, including reviews of biographies of travel writers she admired. Wheeler also examines some much more mundane adventures, including learning to belly dance in a gym near her apartment and climbing into bed with a catalog from Argos, the U.K. department-store chain, which she claims is one of only a few activities that "guarantee pleasure." While this collection has its high points--for example, her early travel writing--it also has the unfortunate effect of highlighting the problems with Wheeler's work. For example, she falls backs on the phrase "tweed-skirted Victorian[s]" to describe two different 19th-century travel writers, Mary Kingsley and Isabella Bird, in two different essays published five years apart. In the introduction, she asks, "Don't you sometimes find daily life almost unbearably poetic?" Unfortunately, most of her prose is flat and declamatory, lacking the poetic details she claims to love. At the same time, her brief biographies of other travel writers often serve to drive home the point that there are much more interesting travel writers out there. Uneven and mostly bland.COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Wheeler (The Magnetic North) has written about her own travels in many cold places: Antarctica, the Arctic, and the Solovki Islands in the Russian White Sea, as well as her journeys in Chile, Bangladesh, and North Borneo. Also a biographer, she has explored the lives of Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Denys Finch Hatton, themselves also travelers of note. This collection gathers together a selection of Wheeler's writings on her treks, thoughtful biographical discussions of other eminent explorers and their writings, and offbeat pieces on subjects such as belly dancing and biplane-wing walking. Wheeler is drawn to explorers who journey into the human condition; her own writing takes this path as well. VERDICT This collection spans human exploration over many years and around the world, and is as much about writing as about travel, fortitude, and desperation. The author accomplishes what she praises other brilliant travel writers for achieving: holding up a mirror that reflects back the world. Highly recommended for lovers of travel writing and smart literary essays.--Melissa Stearns, Franklin Pierce Univ. Lib., Rindge, NH
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Wheeler shares 20 years' worth of essays, reviews, and journalism in this lively collection. Fans will rightfully embrace it as another opportunity to enter the author's smart, curious, and endlessly entertaining mind, and there is no end of delights to be found here. Familiar subjects abound, from polar explorers (Nansen, Shackleton, Scott), to far-off travels (Chile, Cuba, the North and South Poles), to a host of barrier-busting women (Martha Gellhorn, Mary Kingsley, Gertrude Bell). But there is also unexpected fun as Wheeler recounts her experiences belly dancing and wing walking (!), and her caustic wit and acerbic humor are in fine form when eyeing either the works of others or her own shortcomings. Wheeler's authorial fearlessness is on full display in these pieces; she challenges, confronts, and confounds at every turn, never wavering in her desire to learn more about the people and topics that interest her. Wheeler becomes immersed in every place she writes about and every person she is drawn to research. Her intimacy with her subjects is legendary; this collection will only cement her already notable reputation.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2013, American Library Association.)
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Access All Areas collects the best essays and journalism by a writer who has used extreme travel as a means to explore an inner landscape. Ranging from Albania to the Arctic, Wheeler attends a religion seminar aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and defrosts her underwear inside an igloo. She treks to distant Tierra del Fuego—"a place where nothing ever happened"—and to the swamps of Malawi, a place so hot that toads explode. She crosses dubious borders with nothing but a kidney donor card for ID and learns to wing walk and belly dance, though not at the same time.
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