Sara Wheeler
Sara Diane Wheeler, FRSL (born 20 March 1961) is a British travel author and biographer, noted for her accounts of polar regions.
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[edit] Biography
Sara Wheeler was brought up in Bristol and studied Classics and Modern Languages at Brasenose College. After writing about her travels on the Greek island of Euboea and in Chile, she was accepted by the US National Science Foundation as their first female writer-in-residence at the South Pole, and spent seven months in Antarctica. She successfully claimed the cost of a mandatory syphilis test against tax.
In her resultant book Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, she mentioned sleeping in the captain’s bunk in Scott’s Hut. Whilst in Antarctica she read The Worst Journey in the World, an account of the Terra Nova Expedition, and she later wrote a biography of its author Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
In 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[1]
From 2005 to 2009 she served as Trustee of the London Library.[2]
In a 2012 Radio 4 series: To Strive and Seek, she told the personal stories of five various members of the Terra Nova Expedition.[3]
[edit] Travel books
- Evia: Travels on an Undiscovered Greek Island (1992) ISBN 1-8451-1340-7
- Chile: Travels in a Thin Country (1994) ISBN 0-375-75365-6
- Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1997) ISBN 0-099-73181-8
- The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic (2010) ISBN 0-3742-0013-0
- Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010 (2011) ISBN 0-2240-9071-1
[edit] Biography
- Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (2002) ISBN 0-375-50328-5
- Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton (2006) ISBN 0-8129-6892-1
[edit] Children's book
- Dear Daniel: Letters from Antarctica (1997) ISBN 0-416-23690-1
[edit] References
- ^ "All Fellows:W". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows/W. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ "The London Library and The London Library Trust Annual Reports and Financial Statements 2009-2010". The London Library. http://www.londonlibrary.co.uk/images/PDFs/LLAnnualReport2009-2010.pdf. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 Programmes - To Strive and Seek". BBC Online. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019dqvp. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010 p. 51
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica p. 297
