The Explorer's Daughter by Kari Herbert: Analysis (Updated)
The Explorer's Daughter by Kari Herbert : Analysis About the author : Kari Herbert (born 17th September 1970) is a British travel writer, polar explorer, photographer, and television presenter. As the eldest daughter of the polar explorer Sir Wally Herbert, Kari Herbert lived on a remote island in the Arctic with the Polar Inuit of Northwest Greenland for the first few years of her life. This no doubt has influenced her writing and how she identifies herself; the very title of this piece is a clear homage to her father and his influence. Purpose: The purpose of this piece is to describe and discuss the ideas and rationale behind whale hunting, as well as conveying the author’s own opinion. Herbert often switches between descriptive and informative language and the piece shows her conflicting feelings between her love of the whales and the need for survival of the hunters. Analysis First paragraph: Here the writer is very descriptive and writes in the past tense. Notice how she fo