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Roxane Gay in Antarctica: The Things We Do for Love

by Carolyn Wells January 24, 2023January 24, 2023

“Once upon a time, writer Roxane Gay and her wife, the illustrator Debbie Millman, set sail to Antarctica. Here, they each tell the tale—well, their version of it.”

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The Ghosts of Antarctica Will Haunt the End of the World

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 19, 2022October 19, 2022

“One day, a white sheet is draped over the ocean, the next it has burst into a million pieces. A ghost, within a matter of days.” Jack Ryan beautifully weaves history, personal narrative, and science writing in this reported essay for CNET. He comments on our current climate crisis from a front-row seat at the […]

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First Passage

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands June 30, 2021October 19, 2022

“A journey toward motherhood in the age of glacial loss.”

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

When You Race Across Antarctica, Remember Your Spare Skis

by Krista Stevens January 21, 2019October 19, 2022

“They would face wind chill temperatures in the neighborhood of minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, whiteout days with little visibility, unseasonable snowfall, isolation and pain.”

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Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America

by Sari Botton January 18, 2018October 19, 2022

An excerpt of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica, about Billy Gawronski, a 17-year-old who was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story

Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America

by Laurie Gwen Shapiro January 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.

Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction

Determined to Hitch a Ride on the Greatest Rig in America

by Laurie Gwen Shapiro January 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Billy Gawronski was hell-bent on stowing away to Antarctica on Richard Evelyn Byrd’s 1928 expedition.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Are We Too Late to Save Antarctica?

by benhuberman December 2, 2015October 19, 2022

On a cruise through Antarctica’s stunning (and endangered) landscapes, Julia Whitty observes the spectre of climate change from up close.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

A Journey to Antarctica

by Sam Stecklow July 7, 2014October 19, 2022

I don’t think I was the only one who had trouble holding it together. We had come all this way and cashed in so much good fortune for the outside chance that we might see those eight Emperor penguins pick their way across the ice. And we did. In a world that can seem purpose-built […]

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