[Gretchen at McMurdo] Antarctic Bibliography
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This selective bibliography represents some of the books, stories and articles that are available on Antarctica. A complete bibliography would be much more extensive. Several texts in this bibliography focus on Arctic narratives, but they have been useful for their attention to specific themes in polar exploration.

Amundsen, Roald. My Life as an Explorer. New York: Doubleday, 1927.

Bancroft, Anne, and Liv Arneson. No Horizon Too Far: Two Women and Their Extraordinary Journey Across Antarctica.  De Capo Press, 2003.

Bergmann, Linda. "Women Against a Background of White: The Representation of Self and Nature in Women's Arctic Narratives." American Studies 34 (2) Fall 1993: 53-68.

Black Explorers in the Frozen Farthest North. Baltimore: Herbert M. Frisby Historical Society, 1973.

Bledsoe, Lucy.  The Big Bang Symphony (novel); The Ice Cave:  A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic (nonfiction); The Antarctic Scoop (an ecological thriller for middle grade readers); How to Survive in Antarctica (survival guide and an armchair travel guide for young readers). 

Bloom, Lisa. Gender On Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

Byrd, Richard E. Alone. New York: Putnam, 1938.

Campbell, David. The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. London: Chatto and Windus, 1922.

Chipman, Elizabeth. Women On the Ice: A History of Women In The Far South. Carlton, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 1986.

Cook, James. A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, 2 vols. Dublin: W. Whitstone, 1777.

Darlington, Jennie. My Antarctic Honeymoon: A Year at the Bottom of the World. New York: Doubleday, 1956.

Fox, William. Terra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent. Trinity University Press, 2005.

Fox Rogers, Susan. Antarctic Passages (forthcoming). 

Flegg, Jim, et al. Poles Apart: The Natural Worlds of the Arctic and the Antarctic. London: Pelham, 1990.

Fuchs, Vivian. Of Ice and Men: The Story of the British Antarctic Survey, 1943-73. Oswestry, England: Anthony Nelson, 1982.

Johnson, Nicholas. Big Dead Place: The Strange and Menacing Word of Antarctica.  Feral House, 2005.

Johnson, Rebecca L. Braving the Frozen Frontier: Women Working in Antarctica. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1997.

Land, Barbara. The New Explorers: Women in Antarctica. New York: Dodd & Mead, 1981.

LeGuin, Ursula. "Sur: A Summary Report of the Yelcho Expedition to the Antarctic, 1909-10." New Yorker, 1 February, 1982.

Matthiessen, Peter. End of the Earth: Voyaging in Antarctica. National Geographic. 2004.

May, John. The Greenpeace Book of Antarctica. New York: Doubleday, 1988.

Myhre, Jeffrey D. The Antarctic Treaty System: Politics, Law and Diplomacy. Boulder and London: Westview Press, 1986.

Nareen, Ron, et al. Wild Ice: Antarctic Journeys. Washington: Smithsonian, 1990.

Parfit, Michael. Southlight: A Journey to the Last Continent. New York: Macmillan, 1985.

Pynne, Stephen J. The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica. New York: Ballantine, 1988.

Reader's Digest. Antarctica: Great Stories from the Frozen Continent. Sydney, Australia: Reader's Digest, 1985.

Scott, Robert Falcon. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1913.

Smith, Roff. LIfe on Ice: No one Goes to Antarctica Alone.  National Geographic. 2005.

Walton, D.W.H., ed. Antarctic Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Wheeler, Sara. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. London: Johnathan Cape, 1996.

Worsley, Frank Arthur. Endurance. London: P Allan & Co., 1931.

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