Description
Book SynopsisThe Antarctic: An Anthology features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about the South Pole. Contributors include British, American, Australian, Scandinavian, Japanese and Russian explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Apsely Cherry-Garrard, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd and Fouglas Mawson; novelists such as H. P. Lovecraft, Diane Ackerman, Jenny Diski and Kim Stanley Robinson; and popular travel writers such as Sara Wheeler. It is published alongside acompanion volume, The Arctic: An Anthology.
Trade ReviewSome superb nature writing ... display[ing] the beauty and vulnerability of these regions * Guardian *
Some real talent - [here are] writers who not only know their subject, but who can also discuss it with colour and elegance * Good Book Guide *
A glorious taste of the cold south in all its bewildering, vengeful complexity * Financial Times *
