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Julian Sancton
Julian Sancton is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, The New Yorker, the Guardian, and Playboy, among other publications. He has reported from every continent, including Antarctica, which he first visited while researching this book. He lives in Larchmont, New York, with his partner, Jessica, and their two daughters. Writing Madhouse at the End of the Earth has allowed him to reconnect with his Belgian roots and taught him what it feels like to fall into water that is 2 degrees Celcius.
In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. In Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Julian Sancton unfolds an epic story of adventure and horror for the ages. Drawing on the diaries and journals of the Belgica's crew and with exclusive access to the ship's logbook, Sancton brings novelistic flair to a story of human extremes, one so remarkable that even today NASA studies it for research on isolation for future missions to Mars.
- Voted one of the best books of 2021 by de Volksrant & De Morgen
- "Exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" - The New York Times
- "The Energy of the narrative never flags. . . . Sancton has produced a thriller." -The Wall Street Journal
Programme
- 7 pm: Visit at the exhibition 'To the Antarctic'
- 8 pm: Talk
Practical
- Date? Wednesday 25 September 2024, from 7 to 9 pm
- Cost? € 15 (students and -18 years: € 12)
- Language? English
