Out of our fascination with it have come many books, most of which focus on only one aspect of its unique strangeness. With her we witness cutting-edge science experiments, drill ice cores, drive snowdozers, Italian, visit the South Pole, lodge with American, and French researchers, and listen for the message Antarctica is sending us about our future in an age of global warming.

This is a thrilling trip to the farthest reaches of earth by one of the best science writers working today. None has managed to capture the whole story—until now. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, in Antarctica Gabrielle Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into an intricate tapestry, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people.

Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day. Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the earth where humans could never survive unaided.

Lonely Planet Antarctica Travel Guide

Lonely planet: the world's leading travel guide publisher Lonely Planet Antarctica is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world. Fairfax Media Australia.

It's on the Internet. Over the past four decades, and grown a dedicated, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, passionate global community of travellers. Get up close and personal with the local penguin populations, or pay a visit to Ernest Shackleton's eerily preserved hut, cruise the picture-perfect Lemaire Channel, all with your trusted travel companion.

It's on mobile phones. You'll also find our content online, 12 international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, 14 languages, and in mobile apps, video, and more, enabling you to explore every day. Get to the heart of antarctica and begin your journey now! inside lonely planet antarctica travel guide: colour maps and images throughout highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, phone numbers, Port Lockroy, Ross Ice Shelf, Cuverville Island, Cape Denison, more rewarding travel experience - history, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, Deception Island, Lemaire Channel, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, transit tips, and more About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, Cape Evans, environment Over 24 maps Covers the South Pole, the Antarctic Peninsula, Cape Royds, landscapes, Paradise Harbor, wildlife, sight-seeing, sleeping, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973.

It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. Lonely planet enables the curious to experience the world fully and to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves, near or far from home.

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

In august 1914, polar explorer ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. 102812 has limited quantity available. In january 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice.

The harrowing tale of british explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization.

In endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men.

The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated Modern Library Exploration

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration. 102812 has limited quantity available. This account of their race is a gripping, highly readable history that captures the driving ambitions of the era and the complex, often deeply flawed men who were charged with carrying them out.

Scott, became britain's beloved failure, who not only beat Scott to the Pole but returned alive, who dies along with four of his men only eleven miles from his next cache of supplies, while Amundsen, was largely forgotten. The last place on earth is the first of Huntford's masterly trilogy of polar biographies.

In the brilliant dual biography, the award-winning writer Roland Huntford re-examines every detail of the great race to the South Pole between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Roald Amundsen. It is also the only work on the subject in the English language based on the original Norwegian sources, to which Huntford returned to revise and update this edition.

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Antarctic Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species of the Antarctic and Subantarctic Environments Wildlife and Nature Identification

Laminated for durability, this lightweight, pocket-sized folding guide is an excellent source of portable information and ideal for field use. Made in the USA. Www. Waterfordpress. Com 102812 has limited quantity available. Beautiful illustrations and detailed descriptions highlight the distinguishing features of the familiar species eco-tourists are most likely to see on land and at sea during their visit.

Antarctic wildlife is a pocket reference guide to more than 120 of the most common species of marine birds, whales, seals, fishes and marine invertebrates found in this remote region.

Antarctica Cruising Guide: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea

Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, and detailed area maps, spectacular landscapes, wildlife descriptions, this updated edition to a bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, full accounts of interesting places, and local plants and wildlife—from penguins and other birds to whales, seals, and myriad mammals.

. A definitive field guide to antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat. Eurospan. Written by experienced antarctic travelers who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, and political history, conservation, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south.

102812 has limited quantity available. This third edition pays special attention to explaining the threats to Antarctic conservation, including global warming, and includes tips on how visitors can minimize their own impact and help preserve this unique continent.

Wondrous Cold: An Antarctic Journey

Working in below-freezing temperatures, braving blizzards and wind chills as low as -84°F, teeming penguin rookeries and docile seals, she captured entrancing panoramas of Antarctica's beauty and vast scale, and the ghostly abandoned huts of early explorers. 102812 has limited quantity available. From her temporary base at mcmurdo Station, Antarctica's primary research facility, she documented the daily lives of the scientists and support staff who work in this extreme environment.

Wondrous cold features more than 180 of Myers' captivating color and black-and-white photographs. For centuries antarctica has captured the imagination of explorers, scientists, and armchair travelers. Her engaging journal entries describe the physical challenges of taking photographs in a place where a tripod freezes solid in five minutes as well as the research, rhythms, and rituals of life on the Ice.

Its starkly beautiful landscape, extraordinary wildlife, and harsh climate only begin to suggest the wonders of the world's least understood continent. Intrigued by a part of the planet vividly described in the journals of explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Henry Shackleton, award-winning photographer Joan Myers set out to see for herself why people are drawn to such an inhospitable and uncompromising place.

Eurospan. Over the course of several trips, plane, snowmobile, Myers traversed the continent by foot, helicopter, and Coast Guard icebreaker. New york times writer sandra Blakeslee contributes sidebars on the science conducted at the world's most remote frontier.

Antarctic Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide Princeton University Press Wildguides

This one-of-a-kind guide also includes introductory chapters that cover the wildlife of each Antarctic environment by season, as well as information on tourism and Antarctic cruising that will help visitors get the most from their trip. Antarctic wildlife is a must-have photographic guide for travelers taking the standard cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina, to the great white continent, and for anyone interested in the diverse wildlife found in this remote part of the world.

Covers the wildlife of the antarctic peninsula, drake passage, and Beagle Channel Features full-color photographs throughout Describes key identification features and gives tips on where to look Includes an introduction to Antarctic environments and information on Antarctic cruising 102812 has limited quantity available.

Antarctic wildlife is the definitive identification guide to the birds and marine mammals of the Antarctic Peninsula, Drake Passage, and Beagle Channel. Detailed species accounts describe key identification features, give tips on where to look, and highlight interesting facts. Eurospan. This easy-to-use photographic field guide enables visitors to this unique region of the world--newcomer and seasoned traveler alike--to identify with confidence the penguins, seabirds, seals, whales, and other stunning wildlife they encounter on their journey.

Full-color photographs show typical views of each species of bird or marine mammal, together with the terrestrial plants likely to be seen.

Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica

Chosen by beryl bainbridge and john major as one of the best books of the year, recommended by the editors of Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, one of the Seattle Times's top ten travel books of the year, Terra Incognita is a classic of polar literature. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind.

Sara wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. 102812 has limited quantity available. It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent--beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination.

Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. Eurospan. Terra incognita By Wheeler Sara. For centuries, antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return.

Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife Bradt Travel Guide

In turn, this will impact on seal and whale numbers. 102812 has limited quantity available. In the case of penguins, are doing well, Adélies and emperors, for instance, the magnificently adapted and truly Antarctic species, while kings and macaronis, are in decline. In the case of emperors, maybe by as much as 50%.

Bradt's antarctica not only helps you to identify and understand species and habitats, it also explains the issues faced by this extraordinary continent, regarded by many as one of the most precious places on the planet. Updated throughout, the 7th edition of Bradt's Antarctica: a Guide to Wildlife is the most practical guide to the flora and fauna available for those ‘going south'.

Less ice means fewer krill, which depend on the ice-edge for the algae which nourish them. Each chapter is accompanied by vibrant illustrations from Dafila Scott to help bring species to life. Spectacular retreats and monster carvings from the west coast of the peninsula have been seen in recent decades. Eurospan.

Terra incognita By Wheeler Sara. Tony soper's immaculate and engaging text remains the indispensible choice for the intrepid wildlife enthusiast. Antarctica's wildlife is under threat. Celebrating the amazing and often unique species of this spectacular environment, and also on lesser known species such as skuas and sheathbills, the title features chapters on the region's famous whales and penguins, with full coverage of plumage and identification.

Antarctica Cruising Guide: Fourth edition: Includes Antarctic Peninsula, Falkland Islands, South Georgia and Ross Sea

Eurospan. This new edition pays special attention to explaining the threats to Antarctic conservation, global warming, and plastics pollution, including from climate change, and includes tips on how visitors can minimize their own impact and help preserve this unique continent. A definitive field guide to antarctica, this book caters to South Pole visitors traveling by luxury liner, adventure cruise, or private boat.

Terra incognita By Wheeler Sara. Written by experienced antarctic scientists and travel guides who are recognized experts in the continent's wildlife, and political history, conservation, every page offers gorgeous color photographs of the great white south.102812 has limited quantity available. Now packed with even more breathtaking color photographs, wildlife descriptions, and local plants and wildlife—from penguins and other seabirds to whales, full accounts of interesting places, and detailed area maps, seals, spectacular landscapes, this updated fourth edition of this bestselling Antarctica travel guide includes fascinating, and myriad mammals.

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