One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead

Name: One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Clare Dudman
ISBN: 9781433297571

Author: Clare Dudman

Narrator: Christopher Lane

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

In his lifetime Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist who was better known for his offbeat scientific adventures than for his now famous theory of continental drift. In this lushly imagined and beautifully written novel, Clare Dudman charts his life from his 1880 birth to his last daring Arctic exploration in 1930. Dudman vividly chronicles the key episodes that punctuated his life, such as his 1906 recordsetting longdistance balloon flight; his several expeditions to Greenland; his passionate love for his longsuffering wife; his investigations into meteorites, lunar craters, and the formation of raindrops; and his horrific experiences in the trenches of World War I. Dudman also tells of his struggle to defend his theories, a struggle that forced him to leave all that he loved to make one final, fateful, expedition to Greenland at the age of fortynine.

About Clare Dudman

Clare Dudman was born in North Wales and has worked as an industrial research and development scientist. She is married with two sons and lives in Chester. This is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by sisterimapoet on February 24, 2011

If Khaled Hosseini managed to beguile me into thinking 'The Kite Runner' was fact Dudman did the reverse, I had to often pinch myself to remember that Wegener really lived. I've hoarded this book for a while and it didn't disappoint. Cold adventures are a favourite of mine and in Dudman's hands they......more

Goodreads review by John on October 23, 2009

I'm usually not a great fan of US retitlings of UK books (think back to Christopher Priest's novel set in Hardy country, A Dream of Wessex, which in the US became The Perfect Lover), but in this instance I gave a cheer when I discovered on the copyright page that the original UK title had been Wegen......more

Goodreads review by Sundry on June 25, 2008

I'm finding that I very much enjoy this genre of fiction written about real life people. I liked a lot about this book. The descriptions of Wegener's early life is well done. Dudman's descriptions of the ice on his explorations of Greenland are evocative. But I did find myself kind of slogging toward......more