http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2009/04/10#antarctica <P>An odd enthusiasm, perhaps, but my own; since it's part of my <a href="armchair-travel.html">armchair-travel</a> complex, it's not been sensibly diminished by winters in Wisconsin and Michigan. I like to imagine starlight on the ice... <ul>Recommended <li>Evan Connell, <cite>The White Lantern</cite> <li>Stephen Pyne, <cite>The Ice</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>David Campbell, <cite>The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica</cite> <li>Tim Carr, <cite>Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia</cite> <li>James Gorman, <cite>Ocean Enough and Time: Discovering the Waters Around Antarctica</cite> <li>Bill Green, <cite>Water, Ice and Stone: Science and Memory on the Antarctic Lakes</cite> <li>Tom Griffiths, <cite>Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/GRISLI.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Nicholas Johnson, <Cite>Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica</cite> [<a href="http://feralhouse.com/titles/kulchur/big_dead_place.php">Blurb</a>] <li>Leslie Caro Roberts, <cite>The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica</cite> </ul>