This strange & brilliant book recounts Jenny Diski`s journey to Antarctica last year, intercut with another journey into her own heart & soul...a book of dazzling variety, which weaves disquisitions on indolence, truth, inconsistency, ambiguousness, the elephant seal, Shackleton, boredom & over & over again memory, into a sparse narrative, caustic observation & vivid description of the natural world. While Diski`s writing is laconic, her images are haunting.` Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday