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Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent

10 best books like Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent (Gabrielle Walker): Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica, The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible, The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, The Last Stone, Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
AuthorJia Tolentino
ISBN0525510540
Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly in a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Jia writes...
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
AuthorBart D. Ehrman
ISBN0060859512
For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intentional changes abound in the competing manuscript versions. Religious and biblical scholar Bart Ehrman makes the provocative case that many of our widely held beliefs concerning the divinity...
The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling
AuthorJohn Taylor Gatto
ISBN0945700059
Book online at the author's website

Ah, for the good old days, back before child labor laws, back when no had time for such inventions as "adolescence", back when one could sing a cute song about darkies or niggers without being a racist, back when flogging children in the name of civility was...
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0375753389
It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great...
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
AuthorIsrael Finkelstein
ISBN0684869136
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use significant archeological discoveries to provide historical information about biblical Israel and its neighbors.

In this iconoclastic and provocative work, leading scholars Israel...
Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
AuthorNicholas Johnson
ISBN0922915997
When Johnson went to work for the U.S. Antarctic Program (devoted to scientific research and education in support of the national interest in the Antarctic), he figured he'd find adventure, beauty, penguins and lofty-minded scientists. Instead, he found boredom, alcohol and bureaucracy. As a dishwasher...
The Aleppo Codex: The True Story of Obsession, Faith, and the International Pursuit of an Ancient Bible
AuthorMatti Friedman
ISBN1616200405
A true-life thriller about the journey of one of the world's most precious manuscripts--the 10th century annotated Hebrew Bible known as the Aleppo Codex--from its hiding place in an ancient Syrian synagogue to the newly-founded Israel. Using his research, including documents which have been secret...
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst
AuthorNicholas Tomalin
ISBN0071414290
The Sailor's Classics library introduces a new generation of readers to the best books ever written about small boats under sail

In the autumn of 1968, Donald Crowhurst set sail from England to participate in the first single-handed nonstop around-the-world sailboat race. Eight months...
The Last Stone
AuthorMark Bowden
On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, age 10 and 12, disappeared during a trip to a
shopping mall in suburban Washington, D.C. Three days later, eighteen-year-old Lloyd Welch visited the Montgomery County Police with a tip: he had seen the Lyons girls at the mall that day and had...
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration
AuthorDavid Roberts
ISBN0393347788
“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp....
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