The Ends Of The Earth

£25.00

“The Ends Of The Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing On The Arctic and the Antarctic” features an international mix of classic first-person accounts of exploration, literary travelogues and works of cultural history, natural science and fiction about both Poles.

Coming in two volumes, each on the separate poles and both included here, “The Ends Of The Earth…” is a memorable collection of great writing, and a lasting contribution to the debate over global warming and the future of the Polar Regions themselves.

Contributors for Volume 1 “The Arctic” include:

- Explorers such as John Franklin, Fridtjof Nansen, Salomon August Andree, Knud Rasmussen and Robert Peary.
- Novelists such as Jules Verne, Jack London, Halldor Laxness and Barry Lopez.
- Environmental reporters such as Gretel Ehrlich.

Contributors for Volume 2 “The Antarctic” include:

- Explorers such as Ernest Shackleton, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Robert Falcon Scott, Roald Amundsen, Richard Byrd and Douglas Mawson.
- Novelists such as H.P. Lovecraft, Diane Ackerman, Jenny Diski and Kim Stanley Robinson.
Popular travel writers such as Sara Wheeler.