Recommended Reading

[toseaornottosea]

Would appreciate book suggestions for reading prior to an Antarctica cruise. Thanks 

[Grandmaanne7]

I'm currently reading "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing.  It's a great read!

[PerfectlyPerth]

My personal favourite since childhood is South by Sir Ernest Shackleton. 
 

Others on my bookshelf are:

- Mawson by Peter Fitzsimons 

- Antarctica by David Day

- Frank Hurley; A Photographers Life by Alasdair McGregor

- A Gun For A Fountain Pen by George Murray Levick

- The Stowaway by Laurie Gwen Shapiro (I travelled with the author when she was researching for this one). 
- An Antarctic Affair by Emma McEwin

- Shackleton: A Life in Poetry by Jim Mayer (travelled with this author too). 
- Shackleton - Roland Huntford

 

lighter novels - non historical fiction 

- Away With the Penguins, and Call of the Penguins by Hazel Prior

- Where'd you go to, Bernadette by Maria Semple

- Out of the Ice by Ann Turner. 
 

 

these ones are on my "want list" - not yet bought. Excuse the descriptive text - I just pasted it all direct from my phones shopping list!! 
 

- Jon McGregor’s Lean Fall Stand
- Emma Haughton’s page turner The Dark
- James Tabor’s Frozen Solid
- Simon Beaufort’s South Pole thriller The Killing Ship
- Christopher Petersen, Whale Heart
- Julian Sancton’s Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night (2021) is a great true story about Antarctic induced madness. 
- All the White Spaces By Ally Wilkes
- 537 days of winter. David Knoff. Aus expedition Capt n antarctica during Covid. 
- Last Man Off. Matt Lewis. True story of fishing trawler that sunk near Sth Georgia. 
- Ice bound. Joy McCann. The Aus connection to Antarctica. 
- “Shiver” by NikkiGemmell, Aussie true story. 
- The ship beneath the ice. Mensun Bound. Story of finding the Endurance. 

[toseaornottosea]

Thanks for a very comprehensive reading list and happy New Year!

 

[spryder]

Books:

- Rounding the Horn by Dallas Murphy (likely the most relevant one for a cruiser)

- Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent by Gabrielle Walker

- The Crystal Desert by Davis G. Campbell

- Terra Incognita by Sarah Wheeler

- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin

- The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge (historical fiction)

- The Gods of Tango by Carolina de Robertis (historical fiction set in Buenos Aires)

 

Films/Documentaries:

- The Falkland War (excellent Youtube series by Imperial War Museums, British-biased of course but with several fair-minded insights into the Argentinian POV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLR7-hJZEBc&list=PLolzHiCNNbO-GV5ktRsUqnqhXM0e07YBh

- Encounters at the End of the World by Werner Herzog

- Patagonia, with Pedro Pascal (2022)

[Heartfelttraveler]

A fun book to read or movie to watch - 

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

Where'd You Go, Bernadette Trailer #2 (2019) | Movieclips Trailers - Bing video

 

Purely fictional.