Three women--galley cook Rosie Moore, composer Mikala Wilbo, and graduate student Alice Neilson--find their lives entangled as they endure a brutal season on the ice of Antarctica.
Anthony Piers, a member of the New British South Polar Expedition, discovers the truth of what happened to Sir Eugene Stewart's expedition over sixty years before.
The life story of famed Antarctic explorer Shackleton, featuring Frank Hurley's famous photos of the Endurance expedition. Follows him from his first sailing position at the age of 16 to his legendary polar expeditions. Includes candid interviews with family members, scholars and archivists.
Riley accompanies Uncle Max, Aunt Martha, and cousin Alice to Antarctica, the coldest place on Earth, to investigate whether rising ocean temperatures have affected the diet of penguins. Includes facts on different kinds of penguins.
A photographic study of Antarctica, looking at the frozen landscape of the South Pole region, and examining the lives of the land and sea animals native to the the world's coldest, most isolated continent.
A color-illustrated overview of the Antarctic that covers its climate and weather; plant, animal, and ocean life; the ozone layer; and the Aurora Australis. Includes a glossary.
