A late seasonal sunrise over Arthur’s Harbor on the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica.
[The U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) is managed by the U.S. National Science Foundation which operates three research stations on the continent.]
This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.
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Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1932 and observed first-hand the rise of the Nazis and the damage and terror inflicted on the famously tolerant city and its inhabitants. He drew from his journals that he kept from those years to write “Mr. Norris Changes Trains” (1935) and “Goodbye to Berlin” (1939), which would later be combined into an omnibus volume entitled “The Berlin Stories” (1945). Playful and powerful, Isherwood’s depiction of Berlin captured the imagination of later artists, whose work is also represented in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.
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