This section of the bibliography is not intended to be comprehensive. Its purpose is to provide a broad selection of non-fictional accounts of Antarctic inhabitation, with a particular focus on exploration and science.

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• Adams, Richard and Roland Lockley. Voyage Through the Antarctic. New York: Knopf, 1983.
• Airey, Len. On Antarctica. Highmount, NY: Highmount Books; Luna Books, 2001.
• Albert, M.H. The Long White Road: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Adventures. New York: D. McKay, 1957.
• Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance, Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Knopf, 1998.
• Alley, Richard B. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2000.
• American Geographical Society. History of Antarctic Exploration and Scientific Investigation: Folio 19. New York: American Geographical Society, 1975.
• Amundsen, Roald. My Life as an Explorer. New York: Doubleday, 1927.---. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the ‘Fram’, 1910—1912. Trans. A.G. Chater. New York U P, 2001.
• Avery, C.H. "No Surrender!" The Story of Captain Scott's Journey ot the South Pole. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1933.
• Baughman, Tim H. Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s. Lincoln, Nebraska: U of Nebraska P, 1994.
  ---. Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott’s First Antarctic Expedition. Lincoln, Nebraska: U of Nebraska P, 1999.
• Bauer, Thomas.G. Tourism in the Antarctic- Opportunities, Constraints and Future Prospects. New York: Haworth Press, Inc, 2001.
• Begbie, E.H. Shackleton, A Memory. London: Mills & Boon, 1922.Behrandt, J.C. Innocents on the Ice. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 1998.
• Bennet, G. Beyond Endurance. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
• Bernacchi, Louis C. A Very Gallant Gentleman. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1933.
• Bertrand, K. Americans in Antarctica, 1775—1948. New York: American Geographical Society, 1971.
• Bickel, Lennard. This Accursed Land. Melbourne: Macmillan, 1977.
  ---. Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tragedy of The Endurance Epic. New York: Adrenaline Classics, 2000.
• Birkin, A. J. M. Barrie and the Lost Boys. London: Constable, 1979.
• Blunt, A.S.V. Shackleton (A Sermon). London: Sack, 1922.
• Bowden, Tim. The Silence Calling: Australians in Antarctica. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1997.
• Bridges, S.L. Uttermost Part of the Earth. New York: Dutton, 1947.
• Brown, I. Extreme South. Terrey Hills: Australian Geographic, 1999.
• Brown, N. Antarctic Housewife. 1971. Richmond: Hutchison of Australia, 1996.
• Brown, Paul. The Last Wilderness: Eighty Days in Antarctica. London: Hutchinson, 1991.
• Burns, Robin. ‘Just Tell Them I Survived!’: Women in Antarctica. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001.
• Bursey, J. Antarctic Night: One Man's Story of 28,224 Hours at the Bottom of the World. New York: Rand McNally, 1957.
• Byrd, Richard E. Alone. 1938. London: Harborough, 1958.
  ---. Discovery. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1935.Cameron, I. Antarctica: The Last Continent. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, 1974.
• Campbell, D.G. The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
• Campbell, Victor. The Wicked Mate: The Antarctic Diary of Victor Campbell: An Account of the Northern Party on Captain Scott's Last Expedition from the Original Manuscript in the Queen Elizabeth II Library, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Ed. H.G.R. King. Alburgh: Bluntisham, 1988.
• Caras, R.A. Antarctica: Land of Frozen Time. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1962.
• Cherry-Gerrard, Apsley George Benet. The Worst Journey in the World. 1922. London: Picador, 1994.
• Clark, Linda and Elspeth Wishart, eds. 66 South: Tales from an Antarctic Station. Launceston, Tasmania: Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, 1993.
• Claypole, Yvonne. Living on the Edge: A Year in Antarctica. Sydney: HarperCollins Australia, 2001.
• Collier, G. and Graham P. Collier. In the Footsteps of the South Polar Explorers. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999.
• Cook, F.A. Through the First Antarctic Night. London: William Heinemann, 1900. Courtauld, A. From the Ends of the Earth; an Anthology of Polar Writings. London: Oxford U P, 1958.
• Darlington, Jennie, as told to Jane McIlvaine McClary. My Antarctic Honeymoon: A Year at the Bottom of the World. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
• Debenham, Frank. In the Antarctic. London: John Murray, 1952.
  ---. The Quiet Land: The Dairies of Frank Debenham. Ed. J. B. Debenham. Harlston: Bluntisham Books, 1992.
• Diski, Jenny. Skating to Antarctica. London: Granta, 1997.
• Dodge, E.S. The Polar Rosses. London: Faber & Faber, 1973.
• Doumani, G.A. The Frigid Mistress: Life and Exploration in Antarctica. Baltimore, MD: Noble House, 1999.
• Dovers, Robert. My Friends, the Huskies. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1957.
• Dufek, George John. Operation Deepfreeze. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1957.
• Flannery, Nancy Robinson, ed. This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Douglas Mawson 1911–1914. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2000.
• Fletcher, Harold Oswald. Antarctic Days with Mawson: A Personal Account of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929–31. London: Angus & Robertson, 1984.
• Fogg, G.E. and David Smith. The Explorations of Antarctica, the Last Unspoilt Continent. London: Cassell, 1990.
• Fothergill, Alastair. Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic. London: BBC Books, 1993.
• Fowler, A.N. COMNAP: The National Managers in Antarctica. Baltimore, MD: American Literary Press, 2000.
• Giaever, John. The White Desert. New York: Chatto & Windus, 1954.Girouard, M. The Return to Camelot. London: Yale UP, 1991.
• Gorman, J. Ocean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters around Antarctica. London: HarperCollins, 1994.
• Green, Bill. Water, Ice and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes. New York: Harmony, 1995.
• Greet, Pene and Gina Price. Frost Bytes. Sydney: Doubleday, 1995.
• Gurney, Alan. Below the Convergence: Voyages To Antarctica, 1699—1839. New York, W.W. Norton, 1997.
  ---. The Race to the White Continent: Voyages to the Antarctic. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.
• Hall, Lincoln. Douglas Mawson: The Life of an Explorer. London: New Holland, 2000.
• Halle, L.J. The Sea and the Ice, a Naturalist in Antarctica. 1973. Ithaca: Cornell U. P., 1989.
• Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the Gods. Toronto: Bantam, 1996.
• Hasick, James. Antarctic Journal. Flinders Park, South Australia: Era, 1993.
• Heacox, Kim. Antarctica: The Last Continent. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society: 1998.
  ---. Shackleton: The Antarctic Challenge. Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1999.
• Hempel, George. Antarctic Science: Global Concerns. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1994.
• Herr, Richard Allen, H. Robert Hall, and Marcus G. Haward. Antarctica’s Future: Continuity or Change? Hobart: Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1990.
• Hince, Bernadette. The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing/Museum of Victoria, 2000.
• Hinebaugh, M. Flying Upside Down: True Tales of an Antarctic Pilot. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999.
• Huntford, Roland. Scott and Amundsen. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979.
  [Adapted in 1985 for a seven-part television series, The Last Place on Earth, directed by Ferdinand Fairfax. The script for the series, written by Trevor Griffiths, was published in 1986 as Judgement Over the Dead.]
  ---. Shackleton. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1985.
• Hurley, Frank. Argonauts of the South. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1925.
  ---. South with Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1914–1917. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
• Huxley, Elspeth. Scott of the Antarctic. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977.
• Huxley, L. Ed. Scott's Last Expedition. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1913.

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• Jones, A.G.E. Antarctica Observed: Who Discovered the Antarctic Continent? Whitby: Caedemon of Whitby, 1982.
• Keough, P. and R. Keough. Antarctica. Salt Spring Island, BC: Nahanni Productions, 2001.
• Lansing, A. Endurance. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1986.
• Long, John A. and Tim Bowden. Mountains of Madness: A Scientist’s Odyssey in Antarctica. Washington D.C.: Joseph Henry, 2001.
• McGregor, Alasdair Mawson's Huts: An Antarctic Expedition Journal. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1998.
• McGonigal, David and Lynn Woodworth. Antarctica: the Complete Story. Sydney: Global Book Publishing, 2001.
• Mawson, Douglas. The Home of the Blizzard. London: William Heinemann, 1915.
  ---. Mawson's Antarctic Diaries. Ed. Fred Jacka and Eleanor Jacka. Sydney: Allen & Unwin/Haynes, 1988; Adelaide: Adelaide U P, 1988.
• Mear, Roger and Robert Swan. In the Footsteps of Scott. London: Jonathan Cape, 1987.
• Messner, Rudolph. Trans. Jill Neate. Antarctica: Both Heaven and Hell. Marlborough: Crowood, 1991.
• Mickleburgh, E. Beyond the Frozen Sea: Visions of Antarctica. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1988.
• Migot, A. Thin Edge of the World. Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown, 1956.
• Mills, Hugh Robert. Life of Sir Ernest Shackleton. New York: Heinemann, 1923.
• Morrell, Margot and Stephanie Capparell. Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer. London: Viking, 2001.
• Morris, M. A., ed. Great Power Relations in Argentina, Chile and Antarctica. New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Murphy, J.E. South to the Pole by Ski. St. Paul: Marlor Press, 1990.
• Murray-Smith, S. Sitting on Penguins: People and Politics in Australian Antarctica. Sydney: Century Hutchinson, 1988.
• Nansen, Fridtjof and Roald Amundsen. The South Pole. 1913. Introduction Roland Huntford. Lanham, Maryland: Cooper Square, 2001.
• Naveen, Ron. Waiting to Fly: My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica. New York: William Morrow, 1999.
• Naveen, Ron, Colin Monteath, Tui De Roy and M. Jones. Wild Ice: Antarctic Journeys. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
• Neider, Charles. Ed. Antarctica. Lanham, Maryland: Cooper Square, 2001.
  ---. Antarctica: Firsthand Accounts of Exploration and Endurance. Lanham, Maryland: Cooper Square, 2000.
  ---. Edge of the World: Ross Island, Antarctica: A Personal & Historical Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, Tragedy, and Survival. 1974. Lanham, Maryland: Cooper Square, 2001.
• Nielsen, J. and M. Vollersde. Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole. New York: Talk Miramax, 2001.

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• Parer, David and Elizabeth Parer-Cook. Douglas Mawson: The Survivor. Morwell: Alella Books/Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1983.
  [Book published to accompany the release of a documentary of the same name. The film is a dramatic reconstruction of Mawson's ill-fated expedition of 1912.]
• Parfit, M. South Light, a Journey to the Last Continent. 1986. London: Macmillan, 1988.
• Preston, D. A First Rate Tragedy: Captain Scott's Antarctic Expeditions. London: Constable, 1997.
• Pyne, Stephen J. The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica. 1987. New York: Ballantine,1988.
• Riffenburgh, Beau. The Myth of the Explorer. London: Belhaven, 1993.
• Rivolier, J. Ed. Man in the Antarctic: The Scientific Work of the International Biomedical Expedition to the Antarctic (IBEA). London, New York: Taylor & Francis, 1988.
• Rodgers, E. Beyond the Barrier: The Story of Byrd’s First Expedition to Antarctica. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press/Bluejacket Books, 1997.
• Romm, J. S. The Edges of the Earth in Ancient Thought: Geography, Exploration and Fiction. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1992.
• Rosove, M.H. Let Heroes Speak: Antarctic Explorers, 1722—1922. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000.
• Rubin, Jeff. Lonely Planet: Antarctica. 2nd ed. Hawthorn: Lonely Planet, 2000.
• Rugg, John. E. Pinnacle of Antarctica: The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Bloomington, Indiana:1st Books Library, 2001.
• Rymill, John. Southern Lights. New York: Chatto & Windus, 1938.
• Schlesinger, Jr., A.M. and F.L. Israel, eds. Race for the South Pole: The Antarctic Challenge. Chronicles from National Geographic. New York: Chelsea House, 1999.
• Schulthess, E. Antarctica, a Photographic Survey. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.
• Scott, P.M. Like English Gentlemen. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913.
• Scott, Robert Falcon. Scott’s Last Expedition: The Journals. Introduction Beryl Bainbridge. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996.
  ---. Scott's Last Journey. Ed. Peter King. London: HarperCollins, 2000.
  ---. The Voyage of the 'Discovery.' 2 vol. London: Macmillan, 1905.
• Seaver, George. Scott of the Antarctic.1940. London: Murray, 1948.
• Shackleton, Ernest Henry. The Heart of the Antarctic, Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907–1909. London: Heinemann, 1911
  .---. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.
  ---. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914–1917. Ed. Peter King. London: Trafalgar Square, 1999.
  ---. The South Polar Times. 3 vol. London: Smith, Elder, 1907–1914.
• Shapiro, D. and R. Bjelke. Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999.
• Shapley, D. The Seventh Continent: Antarctica in a Resource Age. Baltimore: Resources for the Future, 1985.
• Siple, Paul. A Boy Scout With Byrd. New York: Putnam, 1931.
  ---. Ninety Degrees South: The Story of the American South Pole Conquest. New York, Putnam, 1959.
• Smuul, Juhan. Antarctica Ahoy! Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, c.1957. Honolulu: UP of the Pacific, 2000.
• Soloman, Susan. The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition. New Haven: Yale UP: 2001.
• Spence, S.A. Antarctic Miscellany: Books, Periodicals and Maps Relating to the Discovery and Exploration of Antarctica. Eds. J.J.H. Simper and J.I. Simper. Mitcham, England: J.J.H. Simper and J.I. Simper, 1980.
• Steger, Will and Jon Bowermaster. Crossing Antarctica. New York: Knopf, 1992.
• Stewart, John. Antarctica: an Encyclopedia. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1990.
• Stuster, J. Bold Endeavors: Lessons from Polar and Space Exploration. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996.
• Suter, Keith. Antarctica: Private Property or Public Heritage? Leichhardt, Sydney: Pluto Press Australia, 1996.
• Taylor, T. Griffith Douglas Mawson. Melbourne: Oxford U P, 1962.United States National Science Foundation. Antarctic Artists and Writers, National Science Foundation. Washington D.C.: National Science Foundation, 1993.
• Webb, S. My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
• Wheeler, Sara. Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard. London: Random House, 2002.
  ---. Terra Incognita. London: Random House, 1996.Wilder, M. Antarctica: an Economic History of the Last Continent. Sydney: U of Sydney P, 1992.
• Wilson, Edward Adrian. Diary of the 'Discovery' Expedition to the Antarctic Regions 1901–1904. Ed. Ann Savours. London: Blandford, 1966.
  ---. Diary of the 'Terra Nova' Expedition to the Antarctic, 1910–1912. Ed. H.G.R. King. New York: Humanities, 1972.
• Worsley, Frank A. Shackleton’s Boat Journey. 1933. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998.
• Yelverton, D. E. Antarctica Unveiled: Scott’s First Expedition and the Quest for the Unknown Continent. Boulder: U P of Colorado, 2000.

Bibliography compiled as part of project undertaken by Dr Elizabeth Leane, School of English, Journalism and European Languages, University of Tasmania.

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