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- The Best Books About AntarcticaReading list
The definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 expedition, in which his ship became trapped and was slowly crushed by pack ice, stranding his 28-man crew on the frozen Weddell Sea for over a year. What follows is one of the greatest survival stories ever recorded: open-boat journeys through the world’s roughest…
- Mary RoachInterview
Extraordinary People by Michael Hearst. Atlas Obscura by Joshua Foer, Dylan Thuras and Ella Morton, because what’s not to love about a species that builds a 46-foot-tall koala and practices land-diving to ensure a good yam harvest? Endurance (the Shackleton story) by Alfred Lansing.
- William von HippelInterview
Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boehm, War before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham, A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky, Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant, The Hadza by…
- Gemma CorrellInterview
The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk by Jennifer Niven. I’m on a maritime disaster kick at the moment, having just read In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick and Endurance by Alfred Lansing. I don’t know why I persist in reading these kind of books – it always ends badly for the expedition’s…
- Francesco GolaInterview
At the moment I’m reading Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. This book recounts the failed expedition in the Antartic of Sir. Ernest Shackleton, describing in detail all the efforts to survive two years in an inhospitable land. The most amazing thing is that is a real story that happened…
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