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Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica: And Other Things I Learned While Falling in Love at the Bottom of the World

Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica: And Other Things I Learned While Falling in Love at the Bottom of the World - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michelle OttPublish date:9/23/2025Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Chronicle BooksISBN-13:9781797230818ISBN-10:1797230816UPC:9781797230818Book Category:Art, Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Memoirs, Earth SciencesSize:8.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCXNATHK69

Outer Space Is Closer Than Antarctica: And Other Things I Learned While Falling in Love at the Bottom of the World

This beautifully illustrated memoir tells artist Michelle Ott's true story of falling in love and discovering her place in the universe on a remote research station in Antarctica.

In 2004, feeling burned out and dissatisfied, Michelle Ott left her high-profile gallery job in New York to work as a janitor at McMurdo Station in Antarctica: the coldest, windiest, driest place on Earth. There, she...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Chronicle BooksISBN-13:9781797230818ISBN-10:1797230816UPC:9781797230818Book Category:Art, Biography & Autobiography, ScienceBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Memoirs, Earth SciencesSize:8.10 x 6.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCXNATHK69
Michelle Ott is an artist whose art and illustrations focus on observations of the physical and social world. Her work has been exhibited and published in the US and abroad. She has received several awards, including the Antarctica Service Medal for her work as support staff at McMurdo Station over four summer seasons. She lives in Northern California.
Publisher: Chronicle Books

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