“A deft naturalist with a keen eye for details of nature, human and nonhuman... Bradfield’s poems delight.”― San Francisco Chronicle This collection portrays the gripping history of polar exploration by channeling its most notable figures―Symmes, Mawson, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, Byrd, and Shackleton among them. From their perspectives and her own, Elizabeth Bradfield relays the wonders and dangers, physical and mental, encountered while endeavoring to reach the earth’s least-hospitable regions.