Katie’s Reviews > Edward Wilson Of The Antarctic > Status Update

‘…the stillness was almost uncanny, one could imagine oneself on a dead planet – that we were standing, not on the earth, but on the moon’s surface; everything was so still and cold and dead and unearthly, with an absolute silence which one felt as broken by nothing but wild nature’s storms since the beginning of the world.’

‘As a nation we have the vilest of sins which everyone extols as the glories of Imperialism. One day all this part of our history will be looked upon in its proper light.’

‘If there was one whom I could trust and love and be so bound up with that that he or she could share with me and understand my joys and my love… If he or she could enter into my thoughts and feel with me… My life and my love…’