Stanfords is delighted to be the Official Bookseller at the Travel Festival, taking place at London´s Kings Place on 22nd and 23rd June 2013.
We have 3 pairs of tickets to giveaway to see Sara Wheeler and Rosie Thomas talk about their experiences of the extreme conditions of the coldest places on earth on Sunday, 23 June 2013 at 3.30pm. To be in with a chance to win simply enter your details in the form below.
Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica and made eight journeys to the Arctic. Rosie Thomas travelled in the footsteps of Shackleton.
BEARD OPTIONAL: SARA WHEELER & ROSIE THOMAS
Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.’ The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others.
Rosie Thomas lives and writes in London, but she is also a keen traveller, mountaineer and skier. Among many adventures she has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, trekked in Pakistan, Ladakh and Bhutan, followed the Silk Route through Asia, worked on a research station in Antarctica, sailed the Atlantic, explored in Chile, and competed in a classic car rally from Peking to Paris. Most recently she has sailed the southern ocean from Falklands to South Georgia and then crossed the island in the footsteps of Sir Ernest Shackleton.