Non-fiction: James McClintock: Lost Antarctica (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) James McClintock is an American scientist with a long career of work on Antarctica. His book Lost Antarctica is one of those that I can recommend with: “If you read one book about Antarctica…” Lost Antarctica is part career retrospective, part adventure Continue Reading
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Antarctic Research Blog #127: A Line in the Ice
Novel: Jamie Craig: A Line in the Ice (Carina Press, 2011) Jamie Craig’s A Line in the Ice is the first Antarctic Harlequin book I’ve read. Polar literature is not usually big on romance or sex, and this book has plenty of both. Charlie is a member of a small Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #126: The Ice Cave
Non-fiction: Lucy Jane Bledsoe: The Ice Cave (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) The Ice Cave is a travel book, but more to the point, it’s a book about experiencing nature. The title refers to an ice cave the writer Lucy Jane Bledsoe visited as a child, and which she describes Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #125: Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Documentary: Anthony Powell: Antarctica: A Year on Ice (New Zealand, 2013) A documentary about a year working in Antarctica, this is one of the best Antarctic movies I’ve seen. The director Anthony Powell has worked on the continent for many years, and the movie reflects a deep understanding of the Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #124: Surviving Antarctica
Novel: Andrea White: Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (EOS, 2005) Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 is a young adult book about a group of kids participating in a reality TV show where they emulate Scott’s second, fatal Antarctic expedition. It’s an amazing failure of a book. It reads like a Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #123: Heart of Ice
Graphic novel: Alan Moore: Nemo: Heart of Ice (Top Shelf, 2013) Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen started with two volumes of relatively straightforward intertextual adventure stories before ascending into the realms of conceptual psychedelia. The spin-off Nemo stories, focusing on the daughter of the submarine captain, are a little Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #122: Ocean Enough and Time
Non-fiction: James Gorman: Ocean Enough and Time (HarperCollins Publishers, 1995) The pompously titled Ocean Enough and Time is actually an ok Antarctic book, another product of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s decision to take artists and writers to Antarctica. James Gorman is an editor and a journalist, but his writing Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #121: The Seeds of Doom
TV: Dr Who: The Seeds of Doom (1976) The Seeds of Doom is a six-episode storyline in the 13th season of the British tv series Dr Who. British scientists working at an Antarctic base discover strange, organic objects in the ice, and take them inside for study. They turn out Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #120: Eight Men in a Crate
Non-fiction: Anthea Arnold: Eight Men in a Crate (Erskine Press, 2007) Also a contender for the best title on an Antarctic book, Eight Men in a Crate is the story of a supporting party on the British Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1955-1957. While expedition leader Vivian Fuchs and mountain climber Edmund Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #119: Ice Cores
Non-fiction: David Haden: Ice Cores (2011) Ice Cores is a collection of miscellaneous notes and ephemera about H.P. Lovecraft’s novella At the Mountains of Madness. Billing itself as a collection of essays, it’s barely a book at all, and the essays are just a jumble of notes and suppositions regarding Continue Reading