Ice Diaries
An Antarctic Memoir

2,5. Za dużo autorki, za dużo niedomówień, za dużo histerii i paniki. Za mało lodu.......more

A disappointing conglomeration. The text oscillates between Antarctica and the author's childhood in coyly unnamed Canadian locales. I resented having to piece together clues and guess the Canadian locations. The Canadian sequences should have been interesting, but the lack of specificity and lack o......more

This book requires a good deal of patience with the writer as she navigates her personal journey of the soul — the Antarctic being but a stopping point, albeit a defining one. Some have aptly described it as “creative non-fiction”. The primal story of Antarctica had long since been written by Shackle......more

The journey by ship into Antarctica became an unerringly apt metaphor for my experience of reading the book. Initially it was exhilarating, opening windows into linguistic and literal vistas I could hardly imagine. The denseness of the writing and the author's self-professed tendency to "over-write"......more

I am an experienced Antarctic veteran. This is a memoir of an Antarctic experience by a newcomer. It is crammed full of rich prose. In the spirit of Wild, by Cheryl Strayed, McNeil withholds no secrets. This kept me reading. Her descriptions of the landscape are unique and unexpected, like the Antar......more