Deception Island Larry Jaffe This book takes the reader

This book takes the reader on a personal and poetic trail

and his nephew

D from the University of Wales and in recent years has been associated with the Pushkin Prize

a magnetic intersection between cultures and histories

unshakeable conviction

Deception Island Larry Jaffe This book takes the readerWelcome to Deception Island, a tiny Volcanic caldera in the Antarctic Ocean. Here the rusting remains of industrial whaling and a seabed littered with whalebones testify to mankinds greed and brutality. But the island is also an outpost of scientific exploration, witness to human attentiveness and fortitude. As the ship carrying the authors father edges through the basalt cliffs into the calmer waters of Deception Island, the islands many voices,