[Sksouth-l] Antarctic Program underside in print

[Sarah Kaye]

Some of you folks know about this book already:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/books/01stra.html


My friend Nicholas Johnson who has been around for
both the winters that I have (McMurdo 2001, Pole 2004)
wrote a book about the McMurdo winter. I won't repeat
the NYT review but it's everything that doesn't get
printed in the National Geographic-style books. Work
politics, sex, drinking - consider yourselves warned.
Insanely funny. Not much about me or anything that was
important in my winter, it's Nick's winter, but
everything in there really happened. I'm not one of
the names-changed-to-protect-whomevers, but he does
mention the First Amendment posters I put up when
things started to get really silly.

I do want to make it clear that Big Hand George was
*not* part of the blues band. The band was my family
and the T-Site incident was unfortunate and not caused
by one of us.

For comparison, what I wrote home about that year
(summer at Pole, winter at McMurdo) is at
http://www.murkworks.net/~sarah/dispatches.html.

I hope you're all well! I'll write more in September,
assuming I go off to Palmer Station as scheduled.


Best,


-Sarah