Guidebook: Arturo De la Barrera Werner: Antarctica – Navigation Guide (unknown publisher & year) This is a bilingual (English and Spanish) navigational guidebook my mother brought to me from Chile. It’s full of navigational data, so I don’t really understand much of it, but it feels very professional! It looks Continue Reading
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Antarctic Research Blog #66 – Victim of the Aurora
Novel: Thomas Keneally: Victim of the Aurora (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich inc. 1978) An Antarctic novel by the same guy who wrote the book the Spielberg movie Schindler’s List was based on. It’s a historical story about the fictional Stewart expedition before WWI, a murder mystery on the ice. The big Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #65 – Battleship Antarctica
Documentary: Morgan Mathews: Battleship Antarctica (U.K. 2007) A documentary about the Greenpeace ship Esperanza and its crew on a mission to prevent Japanese whalers from doing what they do. It’s an interesting documentary hijacked by the events: the Japanese ship has an explosion onboard, and in the end the Esperanza Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #64: Scott’s Journals
Non-fiction: Robert Falcon Scott, edited by Max Jones: Journals – Scott’s Last Expedition (Oxford University Press, 2005) This is one of the first books about Antarctica I got, but I’ve been putting off reading it because its very thick and because I don’t like Scott very much. The central story Continue Reading
Antarctic Research Blog #63: Lucy & Jorge Orta’s Antarctic Expedition
Exhibition: Lucy & Jorge Orta: Antarctica (Hangar Biocca, Milan) I found an article on this piece from the indispensable art blog make money not art. Many countries have artist resirencies as part of their Antarctic programs, and some artists even get there on their own. The installations featured in the Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #62 – Claire Keegan’s Antarctica
Book: Claire Keegan: Antarctica (Faber and Faber, 1999) This is a collection of Irish short stories. The title story uses Antarctica as a metaphor, and that’s where the collection’s connection to the continent begins and ends. The title story is intereresting, and a couple of the others are good as Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #61
Movie: Peter Delpeut: Forbidden Quest (The Netherlands, 1993) A Dutch fake-documentary Antarctic movie! This is a great Antarctic film, done with very little means. Its a documentary about the fictitious Hollander expedition, put together using the actual vintage Antarctic and Arctic footage shot by Herbert Ponting, Frank Hurley and others. Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #60: Alien Hunter
Movie: Ron Krauss: Alien Hunter (Bulgaria, U.S.A. 2003) At first you think you’re watching the X-Files, then John Carpenter’s The Thing. Closer to the end you realize this is actually a pretty clever B-movie with some moves of its own. In the beginning, alien stuff is found in the Antarctic Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #59: The Ice
Fiction: Louis Charbonneau: the Ice (Thorndike Press, 1991) The funny thing about this book was that it was a large print edition, with a huge font size and lots of pages to compensate. In all honesty, this was the reason I chose this book to read out of my large Continue Reading
Research Blog Antarctica #58
Photo book: Patrick Hook: The Frozen World – a Panoramic Vision (Compendium Publishing, 2006) My wife got me this collection of panorama photos from the Arctic, the Antarctic and the Alpine regions of the world as a gift in Frankfurt. The book is physically huge, too large to fit Continue Reading