Joanna Kavenna

Heroes of the Ice Age

Four new books on the great era of polar exploration

issue 13 August 2011

  • An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

    Edward J. Larson

    Yale University Press, pp. 326

  • In Shackleton’s Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic

    Henry Worsley

    Virgin Books (Random House), pp. 260

  • Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen

    Roland Huntford

    Continuum, pp. 330

  • The Quest for Frank Wild

    Angie Butler

    Jackleberry Press, pp. 213

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