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Feb 27, 2024 · Following on from one of the best books about Ernest Shackleton, Mensun Bound’s The Ship Beneath the Ice is an equally thrilling tale about the discovery of his fabled ship. This 2022 book on Antarctica and its wild seas documents how ‘the world’s most unreachable shipwreck’ became one of the most prized wreckages in the world.
- 'Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage'
- 'South!'
- 'Race to The Pole'
- 'The Last Place on Earth'
- 'Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of A Mysterious Continent'
- 'Antarctica: A Guide to The Wildlife'
- 'End of The Earth: Voyages to Antarctica'
- 'Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica'
Author:Alfred Lansing Written in 1959, "Endurance" remains the definitive book about one of the greatest Antarctica adventures -- the 1914 expedition to the continent led by Ernest Shackleton. An epic tale of survival (and my all-time favorite Antarctica book), it recounts the destruction of Shackleton's vessel, Endurance, after it was frozen into ...
Author:Ernest Shackleton If you're going to add just one book about the Shackleton expedition to your Antarctica reading list, I recommend Lansing's "Endurance," mentioned above. Trained as a journalist, Lansing knows how to tell a dramatic story, and it's hard to put down. But the protagonist of Lansing's book, Ernest Shackleton, wrote his own ver...
Author:Ranulph Fiennes "Race to the Pole" is the gripping story of the 1911 race to the South Pole by Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen, as told by one of the world's best-known polar adventurers (Fiennes was the first person to cross both the North and South Pole ice caps by surface means). Like Lansing's "Endurance," it's a story of epic adventure ...
Author:Roland Huntford As an alternative to "Race to the Pole" (or in addition to it, if you have the time), you can read about the Scott and Amundsen rivalry in "The Last Place on Earth," a dual biography of the two men that explores their efforts to reach the South Pole. Dating to 1979, the book famously contrasts the fame that Scott achieved eve...
Author:Gabrielle Walker Published in 2013, "Antarctica" offers a look at the continent today, with a particular focus on the scientists and support personnel based at some of the research stations operated by the U.S., France and other countries. Walker, a science writer and climate-change expert, traveled extensively across the continent to recoun...
Author:Tony Soper This 160-page handbook to Antarctica wildlife is the one book that I always carry with me on a trip to the continent, as it's packed with everything I could ever want to know about all the incredible living things that I am seeing, including penguins, whales, seals and smaller birds of all types. Soper has been traveling to Antarc...
Author:Peter Matthiessen The late American novelist, naturalist and wilderness writer Peter Matthiessen offers up a portrait of Antarctica as seen during two voyages to the continent — one a traditional sailing to the Antarctic Peninsula of the sort that most travelers to the continent do; the other a trip on a polar icebreaker that explored more r...
Author:Sara Wheeler Like Matthiessen, travel writer and journalist Sara Wheeler offers a portrait of Antarctica as it is today, but one based on a longer, seven-month stay on the continent. Wheeler lived with the scientists and workers who inhabit the many research stations of Antarctica, chronicling her encounters with them and the surrounding lan...
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Nov 3, 1998 · I have long been fascinated by the Endurance expedition and this book is a "must have" to complete any collection of, or visit to, this story. The fusion of multiple versions of the story gathered from many different persons and the compilation of various types of data and historic sources also make this book a unique and special read.
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- Antarctica: A History in 100 Objects. by Jean de Pomereu and Daniella McCahey. This absorbing hardback was published to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle by James Cook in 1773.
- Scott and Amundsen: The Last Place on Earth. by Roland Huntford. In the finest analysis of Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott’s infamous race to the South Pole, Huntford captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex and often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out.
- Snow Widows. by Katherine MacInnes. The story of the race for the South Pole is told from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it, five women who offer a window into a lost age and a revealing insight into the thoughts and feelings of the five heroes.
- The Worst Journey in the World. by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Written by the youngest member of Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, The Worst Journey in the World has earned widespread praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome and the meaning (if any) of human suffering in such extreme conditions.
Feb 27, 2024 · After much debate, these are the five we think sum up the best of the Antarctica we know and love: The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sarah Wheeler. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night by Julian Sancton.
Oct 6, 2023 · Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey Into a Dark Antarctic Night – Julian Sancton. A book that engrains its harrowing accounts into your mind, Madhouse at the End of the Earth explains the daunting expedition of Belgica in 1897. With thorough research and a touch of literary flair, Sancton reconstructs the true survival ...
Apr 9, 2024 · by Sara Wheeler. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica by Sara Wheeler is a captivating book about the frozen, mysterious continent. Wheeler’s vivid and evocative writing takes readers on a journey through the icy landscapes, introducing them to the harsh beauty and unique challenges of Antarctica.
