Thursday, June 23, 2011

The #spbkchat Polar list

We were talking Polar lit on #spbkchat last night, and a very interesting discussion it was, too :-)

Titles
Pole to Pole
Improbable Eden
Dry Valleys of Antarctica
HMS Ulysses
Give Me My Father's Body
This Cold Heaven
The Terror
The Worst Journey in the World
Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica
The thrall's tale
Antarctic Navigation
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ice
The Little Match Girl
Little House Books (series)
Kalak of the Ice
Snow Dog
Caribou Island
Death and the Penguin
Sherlock Holmes (series)
Mark the Mountain Guide
The Compass Adventure
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Snow Falling on Cedars
Murder on the Iditarod Trail

Antarctica
The Frozen Deep
Mars trilogy
Midnight Breed (series)
Ice Station Zero
Bear Island
The Call of the Wild
Into the Wild
At The Mountains Of Madness
Northern Lights
His Dark Materials (series)
Mainspring
Alaska
Frankenstein
The Ice Beneath My Feet: My Year in Antarctica
Riddle of Frozen Phantom
Illustrated History
War & Peace
Snow Queen
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Dance with the Devil
Penguin
Phoenix Rising
Drifting at the Bottom of the World
The Tenderness of Wolves
The Wide White Page
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Coming into the Country
The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventure from Mojave to Antarctica
In Cold Pursuit

Authors
Michael Palin
Patrick Ness
Green & Potton
Gretel Ehrlich
Dan Simmons
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Sara Wheeler
Judith Lindburgh
Elizabeth Arthur
Ursula LeGuin
Anna Kavan
Jim Kjelgaard
Chris Riddell
David Vann
Andrei Kurkov
Kim Stanley Robinson
Wilkie Collins
Sue Henry
Julia Spencer-Fleming
Lara Adrian
Matthew Reilly
Alistair MacClean
Jack London
H P Lovecraft
Phillip Pullman
Jay Lake
James Michener
Cherry Adair
Diana Patterson
Eoin Colfer
Margaret Mahy
Marcia Stenson
Alfred Lansing
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Polly Dunbar
Pip Ballentine
Auden Bailey
Stef Penney
Bill Manhire
John McPee
Lucy Jane Bledsoe

Links
http://www.bigdeadplace.com/ask_an_antarctican04.html
http://www.antarctic-circle.org/fauno.htm
http://www.librarything.com/work/192161/book/24756136
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=timjones&deepsearch=arctic&collection=-1

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