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Oct 6, 2023 · Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas – Matt Lewis. For a thrilling first-person account, Matt Lewis invites you into his experience of a storm that brought the small ship, Sudur Harvid, to the bottom of the ocean. With a missing captain and only three liferafts, Lewis recounts the dramatic fight to survive ...
- '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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Feb 27, 2024 · Alone in Antarctica by Felicity Aston is the story of the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica, pulling all her supplies behind her on two sledges. Aston is an incredible and inspiring figure who makes struggle read like poetry: if you want to keep reading, follow up with Call of the White: Taking the World to the South Pole about her leading the first all-female expedition to the South ...
Feb 24, 2024 · The story of American explorer Admiral Byrd’s 1934 Antarctic expedition became an instant bestseller upon its release. He was already an international hero after piloting the first flights over the North and South Poles. His plan for this latest adventure was to spend six months alone near the bottom of the world, gathering weather data.
Nov 14, 2023 · The White Darkness by David Grann is a gripping non-fiction book that delves into the mesmerizing and treacherous world of the Antarctic. This book follows the true story of Henry Worsley, a modern-day explorer who attempted to follow in the footsteps of his hero, Ernest Shackleton, by embarking on a solo journey across the unforgiving terrain ...
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.
Lansing’s gripping day-by-day story of Shackleton’s legendary perseverance is essential reading for any Antarctic traveler. Outfitted with maps, an expanded selection of Frank Hurley’s photographs and an introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick. Endurance is the best book about Earnest Shackleton and the Endurance.
