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- 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.
- Terra Incognita – Sara Wheeler. Buy on Amazon. Sarah Wheeler recounts her seven-month stay on the Antarctic continent in vivid detail. From psychological toils to physical challenges, Terra Incognita divulges the complex approach to life on the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
- The Worst Journey in the World – Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Drawing on personal accounts and the words of his fellow compatriots, Cherry-Garrard enlightens you on Robert Scott’s Terra Nova expedition in the early 20th century.
- Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer – Lynne Cox. Buy on Amazon. For a modern escapade into the ice-laden world of Antarctica, read the spiritually uplifting story of Lynee Cox.
- '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...
Sep 11, 2023 · The only thing better than one reliable narrator is a chorus of them. Up until then I hadn’t been conscious that this multiplicity of voices was missing—in Antarctic adventure stories or in any story, really. It’s easy to idealize care and community, especially when they’re presented as alternatives to conquest and competition.
- Michaela Cavanagh
- 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.
Jan 14, 2024 · The White Darkness by David Grann is a captivating book on Antarctic exploration that follows the incredible true story of Henry Worsley, a modern-day adventurer who set out to retrace the steps of his idol, Ernest Shackleton, in the unforgiving Antarctic wilderness.
Aug 23, 2017 · The Best Antarctica Books - For Polar Traveler and Polar Dreamers: Fiction, History, Adventure, and Guides - curated reading recommendations
Apr 1, 1988 · Victor Campbell. 4.00. 3 ratings1 review. An account of the Northern Party on Captain Scott's last expedition from the original manuscript in the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland. 192 pages, Hardcover. First published April 1, 1988.
