Non-fiction: Gretchen Legler: On the Ice (Milkweed, 2005)
Does it say something about the point I’ve reached with this Antarctica stuff that I’m now reading lesbian Antarctic literature?
I had some negative preconceptions about this book, but actually it’s quite good. It’s another of those books generated by the American Artists’ and Writers’ Program, whereby an artist [...]

Fiction film: Charles Sturridge: Shackleton (U.K. 2002)
A fictional dramatization of the same Shackleton story featured in the documentary of the previous entry. It’s a story that became very fashionable especially in Britain during the turn-of-the-millennium craze for Antarctica. Scott had been discredited, so the British needed a new Antarctic hero, and Shackleton fit the bill. [...]

Things’ve been piling up, and this time we’re further away from Antarctica than ever. First there’s an Antarctica movie, though:
Documentary film: George Butler: the Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition (Sweden, U.K., Germany, U.S.A., 2000)
I was very happy to see the movie because it features a large amount of Antarctic footage, including archival material shot by [...]