Recommended Readings
Podcast #4: Roald Amundsen
Roald Amundsen’s Belgica Diary: The First Scientific Expedition to the Antarctic by Roald Amundsen; edited by Hugo Decleir. 1999.
Voyage of the Belgica: Fifteen Months in the Antarctic by Adrien de Gerlache.
Roald Amundsen by Tor Bomann-Larsen. 1995. See the 2006 edition translated by Ingrid Christophersen. Sutton Publishing Ltd: Goucestershire, England.
Race to the End: Amundsen, Scott, and the Attainment of the South Pole by Ross D.E. MacPhee. 2010.
The Last Place On Earth by Roland Huntford. 1999.
Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen by Roland Huntford. 2010.
True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race To the Pole by Bruce Henderson. 2005.
Podcast #3: Sir Douglas Mawson
Sir Douglas Mawson’s The Home of the Blizzard, Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914. 1915. London: Ballantyne Press.
Philip Ayres’ Mawson: A Life. 1999. Miegunyah Press: Carlton South, Victoria, Australia.
Lennard Bickel’s Mawson’s Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written. 1977. Stein and Day: New York
Podcast #2: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance
Ernest Shackleton’s South: The Story of Shackleton’s 1914-17 Expedition. 1982. London: Century Publishing.
Frank A. Worsley’s Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure. 1931. London: Philip Allen
Roland Huntford’s Shackleton. 1985. London: Hodder & Stoughton
Edward Wilson’s Diary of the Discovery Expedition. 1975. London: Blandford Press
Caroline Alexander’s The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. 1998. London: Bloombsbury. Great photographs and overview of the expedition!