Ergebnis für "Ice" in Romanbiografien

Ever wonder what life is like on a touring ice-skating show? How many people travel with the show, how do you pack two fifty-pound suitcases with a year’s worth of clothes, shoes, and supplies? Do you pay your own hotel and transportation? Speaking of pay, what do they pay? How do you cook in a hotel room? And who is hooking up with whom? This semi autobiography is a humorous look into the world of a traveling show about how to live this type of life on the road.

They have weathered high, snow-covered passes, ice chocked rivers, personal loss, and the worst of mankind’s deceptions to venture nearly five-hundred miles overland from the Pacific’s salt water to the Yukon frontier and the Klondike boom town of Dawson City. During this summer season of 1898, our favorite characters are part of the 30,000 souls that crushed in on the city, all with the intent on getting rich, either by digging in the mud for the ‘Flecks of Kings,’ or by mining the miners at a poker table, the supply store, and even in the bedroom.

In 1960, when the legendary icebreaker Magga Dan set sail for Antarctica, it contained a secret. Hiding on board was Nel Law, wife of expedition leader Phillip Law. She would make history by becoming the first Australian woman to set foot on the icy continent, but it was her art that would change everything. Though a talented artist, Nel has always been defined by her role as ‘the explorer's wife', but in the clear expanse of the Southern Ocean, her true self is finally allowed to emerge. Despite misogyny from the all-male crew and resentment from her husband, Nel's art begins to flourish.