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Antarctica | Arctic and Antarctic Exploration | For younger readers

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Antarctica

Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Random House, 1998. One of the greatest survival stories, evoking both the beauty and the terror of Antarctica.

Crossley, Louise. Explore Antarctica. Cambridge University Press, 1995. This environmental study provides a foundation for understanding the region and its natural history, from animals to the movement of ice.

Gurney, Alan. Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839. Penguin, 1998. A history of early British, American, and Russian expeditions to Antarctica in search of scientific knowledge, national prestige, and profit.

Heacox, Kim. Antarctica: The Last Continent. National Geographic Society, 1998. Provides a history of polar explorations, information on the geography of Antarctica, and its wildlife.

Monteath, Colin. Antarctica: Beyond the Southern Ocean. Barrons Educational Series, 1997. Collection of photographs with accompanying text covering everything from wildlife to weather.

Swithinbank, Charles. An Alien in Antarctica: Reflections upon Forty Years of Exploration and Research on the Frozen Continent. McDonald & Woodward, 1997. First-person narrative and photography enhance this polar scientist's account of six expeditions to Antarctica.

Wheeler, Sara. Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica. Random House, 1999. An account of the first woman journalist to travel the south polar continent.

Woodworth, Lynn. Antarctica and the Arctic: The Complete Encyclopedia. Firefly, 2001. A beautifully illustrated study of the world's two polar continents.

Arctic and Antarctic Exploration

Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Random House, 1998. Exciting narrative of Shackleton's near-fatal odyssey, with photographs.

Berton, Pierre. Arctic Grail: The Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909. Viking, Lyons, 1988. 2000. Classic account of Arctic explorers and exploration during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Bryce, Robert M. Cook and Peary: The Polar Controversy, Resolved. Stackpole, 1997. Who reached the North Pole first? This work studiously examines the rival claims.

Calvert, Patricia. Robert E. Peary: To the Top of the World. Marshall Cavendish, 2001. For younger readers; grades 5 to 8.

Fleming, Fergus. Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole. Grove, 2002. Tells of the major expeditions sent to the North Pole from 1845 to 1969.

Gurney, Alan. Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839. Norton, Penguin, 1997. 1998. Maritime adventures to the south polar lands and how captains and crews endured.

Huntford, Roland. The Last Place on Earth. Modern Library, 1999. The race to reach the South Pole, first published in 1979 as Scott and Amundsen.

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody. Ice Story: Shackleton's Lost Expedition. Houghton, 1999. For younger readers, grades 4 to 8.

Ross, M. J. Polar Pioneers: John Ross and James Clark Ross. McGill-Queens University Press, 1994. Biography of two 19th-century British naval officers and their search for the Northwest Passage.

Vaughn, Norman D. With Byrd at the Bottom of the World. Stackpole, 1990. An account by a dog handler on Byrd's expedition from 1928 to 1930.

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For younger readers

Bredeson, Carmen. After the Last Dog Died: The True-Life, Hair-Raising Adventure of Douglas Mawson and His 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition. National Geographic, 2003. For readers in grade 5 and up.

Burleigh, Robert. Black Whiteness: Admiral Byrd Alone in the Antarctic. Simon & Schuster, 1998. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Cerullo, Mary M. Life Under Ice. Tilbury, 2003. Text accompanied by photographs taken above and below the ice, for readers in grades 3 to 7.

Conlan, Kathy. Under the Ice. Kids Can, 2002. A marine biologist describes her experiences living at McMurdo Station.

Marcovitz, Hal. Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Struggle Against Antarctica. Chelsea House, 2001. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

McMillan, Bruce. Summer Ice: Life Along the Antarctic Peninsula. Houghton Mifflin, 1995. For readers in grades 4 to 6.

Sayre, April Pulley. Antarctica. Twenty-First Century, 1998. For middle school and high school readers.

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