But de Gerlache's plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. Madhouse at the End of the Earth has it all."-Stacy Schiff "Julian Sancton has deftly rescued this forgotten saga from the deep freeze."-Hampton Sides 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. "-Nathaniel Philbrick "A riveting tale, splendidly told. The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter "Deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing's immortal classic Endurance. The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter "Deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing's immortal classic Endura.
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This essay, therefore, proposes a panoramic stylo-literary analysis on the language choice of environment in Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born.Īccording to the Wikipedia Encyclopedic Online Dictionary, language is the ability to acquire and use complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so and a language is any specific example of such a system. The sensibility of language intelligibility and acceptability-the mutual relativity and intensifying factor that mirrors the socio-cultural comprehensibility in communication-is hung in the double-quilted roof of Stylistics and literature, otherwise known as stylo-literary efficacy. Language And Environment In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born At least Celia doesn't have to worry about Anna becoming a target for every gang with masks and an agenda, like Celia was at Anna's age.Īs far as Celia knows, Anna isn't anything other than a normal teen. 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