South Pole Station

5 best books like South Pole Station (Ashley Shelby): Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa, Dreaming Anastasia, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?, Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica, Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent

Rules of the Wild: A Novel of Africa

Author	Francesca Marciano
ISBN	0375703438

A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.

Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, Rules of the Wild transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural...

Dreaming Anastasia

Author	Joy Preble
ISBN	1402218176

What really happened to Anastasia Romanov? Anastasia Romanov thought she would never feel more alone than when the gunfire started and her family began to fall around her. Surely the bullets would come for her next. But they didn't. Instead, two gnarled old hands reached for her. When she wakes up...

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

Author	Bill McKibben
ISBN	1250178266

Thirty years ago Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.

Bill McKibben’s groundbreaking book The End of Nature -- issued in dozens of languages and long regarded...

Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica

Author	Nicholas Johnson
ISBN	0922915997

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...

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

Author	Gabrielle Walker
ISBN	1408811103

There have been many books about Antarctica in the past, but all have focused on only one aspect of the continent - its science, its wildlife, the heroic age of exploration, personal experiences or the sheer awesome beauty of the landscape, for example - but none has managed to capture whole story, till...