ANTARCTICA ON A PLATE She Came. She Saw. She Burnt the Toast by Alexa Thomson

This is a great read: the author did a stint as a cook in Antarctica, highly recommended, a real eye-opener.

This is a used book in very good condition: nice clean cover and pages; minor corner wear; pages tanning lightly with age; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample page. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: Imagine you are a 30-something single woman with a stellar career and money to burn but feel increasingly dissatisfied with work and life in general. Imagine that your idea of a “remote location” is the distance between a taxi rank and a shoe shop. So, how do you shrug off your growing misery and ennui? Simple. You apply for the position of cook on the coldest place on earth: a blue ice runway in Antarctica. Antarctica lends itself to tales of adventure and heartbreak - the landscape is polarised: beautiful and deadly in equal measure. But Alexa doesn't scale mountains, traverse the continent or fall down crevasses. Instead, she struggles with a recalcitrant oven and defrosting meat in sub-zero temperatures with thin nylon tent walls as the only protection from 120 km an hour winds. Setting up kitchen in a tent with no electricity or running water takes on absurd and fascinating dimensions as Alexa describes the interactions of an international community of scientists, eccentrics and explorers living in a unique neighbourhood and the tensions and hilarity that arise from such circumstances.

Book Details

Code: SKU76

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 385

Published: 2003 by Random House Australia

ISBN: 1740512073

Postage: $6.90

Price: AUD $8.00