"No one has done more to change the way we understand Antarctica.
Nick was unflinching in his critique of bureaucracy and authority
in the United States Antarctic Program, but mainly he sought to
create a dialogue within and about Antarctica that cut through
cliche and hypocrisy in order to describe things as they really
are, in all their glory and strangeness." -Progressive Review
"It took a full century and the building of centrally heated
infrastructure for the island at the bottom of the world to produce
something like a minor classic. Its author was a young American
writer and itinerant contract worker named Nicholas Johnson, whose
memoir Big Dead Place upon publication superseded a century’s worth
of self-serving ice-beard memoirs and press-junket hackery." -
Alternet
"No one has done more to change the way we understand Antarctica.
Nick was unflinching in his critique of bureaucracy and authority
in the United States Antarctic Program, but mainly he sought to
create a dialogue within and about Antarctica that cut through
cliche and hypocrisy in order to describe things as they really
are, in all their glory and strangeness." -Progressive Review
"It took a full century and the building of centrally heated
infrastructure for the island at the bottom of the world to produce
something like a minor classic. Its author was a young American
writer and itinerant contract worker named Nicholas Johnson, whose
memoir Big Dead Place upon publication superseded a century’s worth
of self-serving ice-beard memoirs and press-junket hackery." -
Alternet
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