The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.
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โAntarctica may well be the best novel of the best ecological novelist around.โโLocus
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It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.
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Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarcticaโs resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century,ย seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future forย the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.
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Praise for Antarctica
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โForbidding yet fascinating, like the continent it describes . . . echoes Jon Krakauerโs Into Thin Air.โโPeople
โ[Antarctica] should be included in any short-list of books about the frozen continent.... Compelling characters...a rich and dense story...Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life. Whatever happens in the outer world,ย Antarcticaโboth the book and the continentโwill become part of the reader's interior landscape.โโThe Washington Post Book World
โTheย epic of Antarctica. This is the James A. Michener novel of the South Pole. If the meaty one-word title didnโt give it away, the writing would. The whole human history of the continent is here.โโInterzone
โAntarcticaย will take your breath away.โโAssociated Press
โA gripping tale of adventure on the ice.โโPublishers Weekly
โPassionate, informed...vastly entertaining.โโKirkus Reviews
โRobinson writes about geography and geology with the intensity and unhurried attention to detail of a John McPhee.โโThe New York Times Book Review
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