antarctica

Readers will learn about a great mountain range buried under ice, massive glaciers, and the wildlife that survives the cold. Majestic photographs and detailed maps will engage readers as geographical, historical, and weather information introduce them to the fifth-largest continent on Earth.

Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history - to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids used by her prededecessors - two Norwegian men -- each of whom employed either parasails or kites. Aston's journey across the ice at the bottom of the world asked of her the extremes in terms of mental and physical bravery, as she faced the risks of hypothermia and unseen cracks buried in the snow so large they might engulf her. She had to deal with her emotional vulnerability in face of the constant bombardment of hallucinations, brought on by the vast sea of whiteness which caused the lack of stimulation to her senses, as she faced what is tantamount to a form of solitary confinement.

The 26.2 mile Antarctica Marathon, first held in 1995, is now an annual event that sells out years in advance. Muddy, cold, hilly, and horrible, the race goes up and down a melting glacier twice, past curious penguins and hostile skuas. What possesses runners to brave a trip across the world's most turbulent body of water, the Drake Passage, to be a part of all this? When John Hanc turned fifty, he gave himself a present: a trip to the marathon. He attempts to answer the question of why in his book.

When an unidentified drone crashes in Antarctica, and the research station nearby stops communicating, Ryan Cross and the Shadow Squadron are sent to investigate--but their job is complicated by a Russian special forces team, and an officer of Phantom Cell who is more interested in the device than the safety of the American scientists.

Presents an interactive story that places the reader in the midst of Antarctica, struggling for survival. The reader can select from three story paths, fifty-three choices, and twenty different endings to the book.

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.

It takes a special person to work in the extreme environment of Antarctica, but many scientists, engineers, doctors, and technicians do. Readers will learn the many kinds of jobs involved in running a polar research center as well as what Antarctic workers do in their free time.

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.