Looking for the best Antarctica books? Browse our list to find excellent book recommendations on the subject.
- Lonely Planet Antarctica (Travel Guide) (2017)
- Antarctica Cruising Guide: Fourth edition: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea (2018)
- Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife (Bradt Travel Guide) (2018)
- Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs (Secret Space Programs Series) (2018)
- Antarctica (Rookie Read-About Geography: Continents) (2012)
- Antarctica (A True Book: Geography: Continents) (2009)
- Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land (MacSci) (2014)
- Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide (Princeton University Press (Wildguides)) (2011)
- Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1999)
- The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica (2019)
- Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (2006)
- Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica. (2001)
- Hess and the Penguins: The Holocaust, Antarctica and the Strange Case of Rudolf Hess (2017)
- Where Is Antarctica? (2019)
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (2015)
Lonely Planet Antarctica (Travel Guide) (2017)
Lonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Get up close and personal with the local penguin populations, cruise the picture-perfect Lemaire Channel, or pay a visit to Ernest Shackleton’s eerily preserved hut, all with your trusted travel companion.
Antarctica Cruising Guide: Fourth edition: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea (2018)
Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and detailed area maps, this updated fourth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, spectacular landscapes, and local plants and wildlife—from penguins and other seabirds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals.
Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife (Bradt Travel Guide) (2018)
Updated throughout, the 7th edition of Bradt’s Antarctica: a Guide to Wildlife is the most practical guide to the flora and fauna available for those ‘going south’. Celebrating the amazing and often unique species of this spectacular environment, the title features chapters on the region’s famous whales and penguins, and also on lesser known species such as skuas and sheathbills, with full coverage of plumage and identification.
Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs (Secret Space Programs Series) (2018)
Antarctica is a land about to be exposed over its well-guarded secrets and ancient hidden mysteries In 1955, as a result of a secret agreement reached between the Eisenhower Administration and a German breakaway group in Antarctica, a transnational corporate space program began to emerge.
Antarctica (Rookie Read-About Geography: Continents) (2012)
Rookie Read-About: Continents series gives the youngest reader (Ages 3-6) an introduction to the components that make each continent distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each continents’ geography, history, and wildlife.
Antarctica (A True Book: Geography: Continents) (2009)
A True Book: Geography series dives into the many components that make each continent distinctive and exceptional. Readers will get to know each continents’ geography, history, wildlife and future outlook.
Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land (MacSci) (2014)
Few of us will ever get to Antarctica. The bitter cold and three months a year without sunlight makes the sixth continent virtually uninhabitable for humans. Yet marine biologist James B. McClintock has spent three decades studying the frozen land in order to understand better the world that lies beneath it.
Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide (Princeton University Press (Wildguides)) (2011)
Antarctic Wildlife is the definitive identification guide to the birds and marine mammals of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage, and Beagle Channel. This easy-to-use photographic field guide enables visitors to this unique region of the world–newcomer and seasoned traveler alike–to identify with confidence the penguins, whales, seals, seabirds, and other stunning wildlife they encounter on their journey.
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (1999)
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world.
The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica (2019)
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet’s final frontier? Everyone wanted in on the adventure.
Surviving Antarctica: Reality TV 2083 (2006)
The wind and snow blow so hard, you can’t see your hand in front of your face. Your heating fuel is nearly gone, and so is your food. How do you survive? Five fourteen–year–olds face this desperate situation on a deadly journey in Antarctica. It is 2083. They are contes–tants on a reality TV show, Antarctic Survivor, which is set up to re–create Robert F. Scott’s 1912 doomed attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. But in 2083 reality TV is not just an act.
Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica. (2001)
South America, though home to about one-third of the world’s bird species and twice as many endemic families of birds as any other continent, has the world’s sparsest population of birdwatchers.
Hess and the Penguins: The Holocaust, Antarctica and the Strange Case of Rudolf Hess (2017)
Pursuing his investigations of WWII machinations, secret international agreements, breakaway civilizations and hidden wars in Antarctica, author and researcher Joseph P. Farrell examines the continuing mystery of Rudolf Hess, his sudden flight to Scotland, his supposed imprisonment at Spandau Prison in Berlin and how his flight affected affairs in Europe, Israel, Antarctica and elsewhere.
Where Is Antarctica? (2019)
Antarctica, the earth’s southernmost continent, was virtually untouched by humans until the nineteenth century. Many famous explorers journeyed (and often died) there in the hope of discovering a land that always seemed out of reach.
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage (2015)
In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.
Best Antarctica Books Worth Your Attention
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Antarctica’s Hidden History: Corporate Foundations of Secret Space Programs
Author(s): Michael Salla
ID: 2230921, Publisher: Exopolitics Consultants, Year: March 25, 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Format: epub
The Land Beneath the Ice: The Pioneering Years of Radar Exploration in Antarctica
Author(s): David J. Drewry
ID: 3626178, Publisher: Princeton University Press, Year: 2023, Size: 280 Mb, Format: pdf
The Last Cold Place: a Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica
Author(s): Naira de Gracia
ID: 3694331, Publisher: , Year: 2023, Size: 272 Kb, Format: epub
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