Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the "Writer in Residence at the U.S. South Pole Station." She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them.

Called RmagnificentS by the "Sunday Times" (London), this work tells the dramatic story of Denys Finch Hatton, a brilliant and charismatic man with a passion for adventure, whose life was celebrated by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) in her classic memoir, "Out of Africa."