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ANTARCTIC BOOKS—A READING LIST The AAD Library at Kingston has a comprehensive collection of polar material. The books listed below have been selected for general interest. They are available in the library and should also be available in the larger Australian libraries. Most are available in the station libraries. Douglas Mawson, the Survivor, by David Parer and Elizabeth Parer-Cook (Morwell, Victoria: Allela Books and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1983). Antarctic Odyssey, by Phillip Law (Melbourne: Heinemann, 1983). Antarctic Resources Policy: Scientific, Legal and Political Issues, edited by Francisco Orrego Vicuna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983). Antarctic Days with Mawson: A Personal Account of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition of 1929-31, by Harold Fletcher (Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1984). Antarctic Ecology, edited by R M Laws (London: Academic Press, 1984). Australia's Antarctic Policy Options, edited by Stuart Harris (Canberra: Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University, 1984 - CRES Monograph 11). Antarctica: Great Stories from the Frozen Continent (Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1985). Antarctica: Our Last Great Wilderness, by Geoff Mosley (Hawthorn, Victoria Australian Conservation Foundation, 1986. Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South, by Elizabeth Chipman (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1986). Going to Extremes: Project Blizzard and Australia's Antarctic Heritage by (Sydney: Doubleday, 1986). International Law and Australian Sovereignty in Antarctica, by Gillian Triggs (Sydney: Legal Books Pty Ltd, 1986). In the Footsteps of Scott, by Roger Mear and Robert Swan (London: Jonathan Cape, 1987). Antarctic Science, edited by DWH Walton, with contributions by CSM Doake, JR Dudley, I Everson and RM Laws (Cambridge; Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987). Antarctica : The Next Decade, edited by Sir Anthony Parsons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 - Studies in Polar Research). The Antarctic Treaty Regime: Law, Environment and Resources, edited by Gillian Triggs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987 - Studies in Polar Research). Antarctic Psychology, by A.J.W. Taylor (Wellington: Science Information Publishing Centre, DSIR, 1987 - DSIR Bulletin No. 244). The Amundsen Photographs, edited and introduced by Roland Huntford (London; Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton, 1987). International Research in the Antarctic, by Richard Fifield (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, 1987). Antarctic Treaty System: an assessment. (National Academy Press: (Washington DC 1986). Beyond the Frozen Area; Visions of Antarctica, by Edwin Mickleburgh (London: Bodley Head, 1987). Antarctic Mineral Exploitation: The Emerging Legal Framework, by Francisco Orrego Vicuna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). Man in the Antarctic: The Scientific Work of the International Biomedical Expedition to the Antarctic (IBEA), edited by J. Rivolier, R. Goldsmith, D.J. Lugg and A.J.W. Taylor (London: Taylor & Francis, 1988). Breaking the Ice, by Rowan Butler (Sutherland; NSW: Albatross Books, 1988). Antarctic Journey: Three Artists in Antarctica, by Peter Boyer and Hendrik Kolenberg (Canberra: AGPS, 1988). Sitting on Penguins: People and Politics in Australian Antarctica, by Stephen Murray-Smith (Surry Hills, NSW Hutchinson Australia, 1988). Mawson's Antarctic Diaries, edited by Fred and Eleanor Jacka (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1988). Biology of the Vestfold Hills, Antarctica. Proceedings of the Symposium, Hobart August 1984. Dordrecht : Kluwer, 1988 - Developments in Hydrobiology; 34. Aurora Australia, edited by E.H. Shackleton (Sydney: Bay Books, 1988). Macquarie Island: Papers Presented at the Macquarie Island Symposium (Hobart: Royal Society of Tasmania, 1988 - Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania; Volume 122 Part 1). Antarctica: The Extraordinary History of Man's Conquest of the Frozen Continent (Sydney: Reader's Digest, 1988). Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days, by Tim Bowden (Crows Nest, New South Wales: ABC Enterprises for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1991). Antarctica: Beauty in the Extreme, by Jonathan Chester (Balwyn, Victoria: The Five Mile Press, 1991). A History of Antarctic Science, by G E Fogg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992). The Australian Geographic Book of Antarctica, by Keith Scott (Terrey Hills, New South Wales: Australian Geographic for the Australian Geographic Society, 1993). Antarctic Journal, by David James Hasick (Flinders Park, South Australia: Era Publications, 1993). Life in the Freezer: A Natural History of the Antarctic, by Alastair Fothergill, foreword by David Attenborough (London: BBC Books, 1993). Explore Antarctica, by Louise Crossley (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1995). Frost Bytes, by Pene Greet and Gina Price (Sydney: Doubleday, 1995). The Antarctic Voyage of the HMAS Wyatt Earp, by Phillip Law (St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 1995). The Home of the Blizzard: The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, by Douglas Mawson (Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, 1996). A History of Antarctica, by Stephen Martin (Sydney: State Library of New South Wales Press, 1996). The Silence Calling: Australians in Antarctica 1947-97: the ANARE Jubilee history, by Tim Bowden (St Leonards, New South Wales: Allen & Unwin, 1997). An Alien in Antarctica: Reflections upon Forty Years of Exploration and Research on the Frozen Continent, by Charles Swithinbank (Blacksburg, Virginia: McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, 1997). The Backpackers’ Guide to ANARE Science, Australian Antarctic Division, 2000. The Antarctic Dictionary: a complete guide to Antarctic English, by Bernadette Hince (CSIRO Publishing, 2000) Just tell them I survived: Women in Antarctica by Robin Burns. (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001). Antarctica: the complete story, by David McGonigal and Lynn Woodworth (Noble Park, Victoria: Five Mile Press, 2001). Antarctica: the blue continent, by David McGonigal and Lynn Woodworth (Noble Park, Victoria: Five Mile Press, 2002). A complete guide to Antarctic wildlife, by Hadoram Shirihai (Finland: Alula Press, 2002). To the ends of the earth: the history of polar exploration, by Richard Sale (London: HarperCollins, 2002) Voyage to the end of the world; with tales from the great ice barrier by David Burke (Annandale, NSW: Envirobook, 2002) Australian Antarctic science: the first 50 years of ANARE, edited by Harvey J. Marchant, Desmond J. Lugg and Patrick G. Quilty (Kingston, Tas.: Australian Antarctic Division, 2002) Antarctica: the heart of the world, by Coral Tulloch (Sydney: ABC Books, 2003). End of the Earth: voyages to Antarctica, by Peter Matthiessen (National Geographic Society, 2003) Mawson: a life, by Philip Ayres (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2003) Captain Scott, by Ranulph Fiennes (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003) Antarctica: a guide to the wildlife. 4th ed., by Tony Soper (Chalfont St Peter, Bucks.: Bradt Travel Guides, 2004) Frank Hurley: a photographer's life, by Alasdair McGregor (Camberwell, Vic.: Viking, 2004) Antarctica. 3rd ed., by Jeff Rubin (Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet, 2005) Scott of the Antarctic: a life of courage and tragedy in the extreme south, by David Crane (London: HarperCollins, 2005) The last explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's unknown hero, by Simon Nasht (Sydney: Hodder, 2005) T.W. Edgeworth David: a life, by David Branagan (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2005) Antarctic Dad ; Hazel Edwards and Kevin Burgemeestre (Lothian, Melbourne, 2006) Heard Island: Southern Ocean sentinel, edited by Ken Green and Eric Woehler (Chipping Norton, NSW: Surrey Beatty, 2006) A complete guide to Antarctic wildlife, by Hadoram Shirihai. 2nd ed. (London: Black, 2007) Antarctica: secrets of the southern continent, by David McGonigal (Buffalo: Firefly Books, 2008) Mawson’s Huts: the birthplace of Australia’s Antarctic heritage, by Mawson’s Huts Foundation (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2008) An Antarctic affair, by Emma McEwin (Bowden, SA: East Street Publications, 2008) Racing with death: Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, by Beau Riffenburgh (London: Bloomsbury, 2008) Subantarctic wilderness: Macquarie Island, by Aleks Terauds and Fiona Stewart (Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2008) Slicing the silence: voyaging to Antarctica, by Tom Griffiths (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2007) Mawson: life and death in Antarctica [book/DVD], by Tim Jarvis (Carlton, Vic.: Miegunyah Press, 2008/Lindfield, NSW: Film Australia in association with Orana Films, 2008) Polar exploration, by Beau Riffenburgh (London: Andre Deutsch, 2009) Dr Phillip Garth Law: his extraordinary life and times, by Ian Toohill (Melbourne: The Royal Societies of Australia, 2009) Health of Antarctic wildlife: a challenge for science and policy, by Knowles Kerry and Martin Riddle (Berlin: Springer, 2009) Environmental change in the Sub-Antarctic: proceedings of the second international forum on the Sub-Antarctic (Papers and proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol.143, pt.1, Dec.2009) Antarctica. 4th ed., by Jeff Rubin (Footscray, Vic.: Lonely Planet, 2008) Galapogos of the Antarctic: wild islands south of New Zealand, by Rodney Russ and Aleks Terauds (Christchurch, N.Z.: Heritage Expeditions, 2009) Polar eyes, by Tanya Patrick and Nick Hutcheson (Dickson, ACT: CSIRO, 2009) The heart of the great alone: Scott, Shackleton and Antarctic photography, by David Hempelman-Adams, Sophie Gordon, Emma Stuart and Alan Donnithorne (London: Royal Collection Publications, 2009) Frank Hurley’s Antarctica, by Helen Ennis (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2010) The home of the blizzard: an Australian hero’s classic tale of Antarctic discovery and adventure. Rev. ed., by Sir Douglas Mawson (Kent Town, S.A.: Wakefield Press, 2010) Unique and unspoilt: a year among the natural wonders of Heard Island (the 1953 journals of John Bechervaise), by Bernadette Hince (Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2011) .
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