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| Original Title: | The White Darkness |
| ISBN: | 0060890355 (ISBN13: 9780060890353) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Sym |
| Literary Awards: | Michael L. Printz Award (2008) |
Geraldine McCaughrean
Hardcover | Pages: 373 pages Rating: 3.48 | 4210 Users | 708 Reviews
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| Title | : | The White Darkness |
| Author | : | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 373 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Adventure. Fiction. Teen. Survival. Realistic Fiction. Contemporary |
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I have been in love with Titus Oates for quite a while now--which is ridiculous, since he's been dead for ninety years. But look at it this way. In ninety years I'll be dead, too, and the age difference won't matter. Sym is not your average teenage girl. She is obsessed with the Antarctic and the brave, romantic figure of Captain Oates from Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole. In fact, Oates is the secret confidant to whom she spills all her hopes and fears. But Sym's uncle Victor is even more obsessed--and when he takes her on a dream trip into the bleak Antarctic wilderness, it turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival that will challenge everything she knows and loves. In her first contemporary young adult novel, Carnegie Medalist and three-time Whitbread Award winner Geraldine McCaughrean delivers a spellbinding journey into the frozen heart of darkness.Rating Out Of Books The White Darkness
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I have a friend who says she can tell if shell love a movie with the first ten minutes. And I can often say the same for a book; I can tell I love it within the first twenty pages or so. But The White Darkness took me until page 73 to get really hooked. And then I couldnt put it down. Its about a teenage girl, Symone, who gets her dream vacation: a trip to Antarctica. She is obsessed with Antarctica and one of its brave explorers, Captain Oates from Scotts doomed expedition to the South Pole.Fourteen-year-old Sym knows all there is to know about Antarcticathe landscape, the history, the explorers and how they survived (or didn't). Especially dear to her is Captain Oates of the failed Scott expedition of 1, in whom she confides all of her hopes, dreams, and fears within her head, a character all his own within the book. When her Uncle Victor surprises her with a trip down southway southshe is thrilled. But Victor is not telling her everything, and she eventually finds herself on the
I loved this book...but I can see why you might either love or hate it. The conflict is multifaceted: a person, a landscape, and the main character's mind. All three of these aspects develop quite slowly, so if you need a faster-paced novel or a clear-cut villain it may not appeal to you. The book also has a lot of symbolic aspects and devices, maybe too many (Titus, the bound princess, the letters...etc). A lot of the plot stretches the limits of realism, so if you come into this looking for a
14-year-old Symone Wates is more than a bit socially awkward (her obvious hearing aids don't help). But thanks to her obsession with the doomed Scott Antarctic Expedition, she's got a pretty solid relationship with Lawrence "Titus" Oates, a member of the team -- even if he does exist only in her head. When family friend "Uncle" Victor, who shares her obsession, takes Sym on a surprise trip to actual Antarctica, her knowledge of the geography and what it takes to survive will be put to the test
A young girl named Symone is taken without her mother's permission by her "uncle" on a trip to the Antarctic. Uncle is obsessed with the idea of a world or worlds within the Earth and is convinced that the access portal to these worlds lies at the South Pole. Sym is a whole lot naive and completely too trusting of this uncle but as the story goes on she becomes more and more aware of how crazy her uncle is. The trip is dangerous with hazards you can't even imagine and is driven by the obsessed
Do you have any idea how to live in a freezing dessert called South Pole? Or have you tried reading thousands of books regarding South Pole and the failed expedition of Captain Oates? What if you fall in love to an imaginary character just by watching an old film about South Pole? This book is sympathetically all you need to live in the South. No need for maps or self-help books and most of the entire journey is effortless.I never wished to go to the South and I dont have any idea how to fall in
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