Non-fiction: Peter Matthiessen: End of the Earth (National Geographic Society, 2003) This is the worst Antarctica book I’ve read so far. Its crimes include pointlessness and a lack of content, but far worse is its surprising ability to resist reading. Whether I’m tired or feeling sharp, after reading half a Continue Reading

Non-fiction: Roland Huntford: Shackleton (Abacus 1996, orig. 1985) One of Roland Huntford’s three massive biographies of the explorers of the Heroic Age, I left this for the last because Shackleton is so fashionable these days, I’ve gone through his story three times so far already, once in Shackleton’s own account, Continue Reading

Non-fiction: Christer Boucht: Lähdin Etelämantereelle (Kirjayhtymä, 1993) This is the first Antarctica book I read in Finnish. Although the author is a Finn, it’s originally been published in Swedish. It’s about a 78-year old guy who goes on one of the Adventure Network trips to Antarctica in the late Eighties. Continue Reading