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From harrowing firsthand accounts of survival to page-turning murder mysteries, we list our favourite books about Antarctica<\/p>\n
The most inhospitable place on Earth is an engrossing setting for any story, be it fictional or factual. Unsurprisingly, Antarctica\u2019s literary canon is filled with tales of tragedy and\/or survival<\/a> against the odds. It would be easy, then, to fill this list with biographies of Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton alone. But Antarctica deserves attention beyond its tales of tragedy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With that in mind, we have taken a broader view. There are, of course, profiles of the pioneers and their epic journeys of discovery<\/a> spanning more than a century of polar exploration, but we\u2019ve also included a diverse mix of memoirs, biographies and novels \u2013 from crime to science fiction \u2013 all with Antarctica<\/a> at the core of the narrative.<\/p>\n