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The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady
 
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The Far Islands and Other Cold Places: Travel Essays of a Victorian Lady (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Taylor (Author), James Taylor Dunn (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Pogo Press (Sep 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1880654113
  • ISBN-13: 978-1880654118
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,549,922 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Book Review from Minneapolis Star, dated August 17, 1997
Speaking of this title, "Pogo Press of St. Paul exemplifies what small presses should be about, publishing books of great interest that New York publishers wouldn't touch for reasons involving the bottom line."

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing travel in sub-Arctica by a fascinating woman, 3 Dec 1997
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Elizabeth Taylor, one of those indomitable Victorian women who hiked their skirts and explored where even tough moderns would pause, faced the wilds of northern Canada and of the Faroe Islands. The miserable weather etched the inhabitants but didn't faze our guide.

Taylor was neither a sentimentalist nor a cynic but saw clearly and wrote straight. Trained as an artist and enamored of nature--especially birds and flowers--Taylor appreciated people who lived closest to her beloved surroundings. By her account, they responded to her interest by inviting her to share their hard-bitten lives and without pretense, she accepted their invitations.

Taylor financed her economic travels by writing for middle class magazines, like Frank Leslie's, and for outdoors magazines where a female byline was a rarity. These essays come from those published pieces and some journals archived in her hometown, Minneapolis. A descendent has assembled the collection, but the task had real literary and cultural value that counts for much more than familial duty.

A book about places few of us ever would want to visit became for me a book full of passages worthy of reading to friends. A description of the whale hunt, for example, rings with authority and subdued horror. Elizabeth Taylor emerges as her own modest heroine, and her quiet, gemhard descriptions stay alive long after the book is finished.

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