For most people, reading about Antarctica is the only affordable means of experiencing the continent. Books range from wild works of fiction to non-fiction accounts of the extraordinary early missions of adventurers looking to conquer Earth's last land frontier.
At the Mountains of Madness ? the earliest science fiction/horror story to take place on the continent, written by H.P. Lovecraft, detailing the adventures of a geological expedition to Antarctic Mountains, where the researchers discover something so inconceivable that they lose their minds
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing
Endurance, by Caroline Alexander
A First-Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott & the Race to the South Pole, by Diana Preston
Mawson's Will, by Lennard Bickel
North Pole, South Pole: Journeys to the Ends of the Earth, by Bertrand Imbert
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, by Robert F. Scott and Beryl Bainbridge
Shackleton, by Roland Huntford
South Pole: 900 Miles on Foot, by Gareth Wood and Eric Jamieson
The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Terra Incognita, by Sara Wheeler
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