End of the Earth: Voyaging to Antarctica

End of the Earth brings to life the waters of the richest whale feeding grounds in the world, the wandering albatross with its 11-foot wingspan arching through the sky, and the habits of every variety of seal, walrus, petrel, and penguin in the area, all with boundless and contagious inquisitiveness. Magnificently written, the bookevokes an appreciation and sympathy for a region as harsh as it is beautiful.

“Luminous and haunting . . . the contemporary Thoreau.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“[Matthiessen] doesn’t waste words, and in End of the Earth: Voyages to Antarctica, his homage to the austere splendor of that frozen continent, he hasn’t deployed a single one whose choice I would care to take issue with. . . . Matthiessen writes crusty, chiseled sentences that demand to be read slowly—the perfect prose equivalent of the landscapes he’s describing.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Matthiessen and polar landscapes seem perfectly suited. . . . I found myself constantly re-reading sentences or paragraphs to savour all of their rich resonances. . . . Few if any authors on the region have so successfully compressed . . . Antarctic life . . . and I suspect it will become standard reading.”—The Guardian

• The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica
• Antarctic Explorer Map; (Ocean Explorer Maps)
• Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
• Antarctica, 6th: A Guide to the Wildlife (Bradt Travel Guide)
• Antarctic Wildlife: A Folding Pocket Guide to Familiar Species of the Antarctic and Subantarctic Environments (A Pocket Naturalist Guide)
• Penguins of the World
• The Last Place on Earth: Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole, Revised and Updated (Modern Library Exploration)
• Lonely Planet Antarctica (Travel Guide)
• The Storied Ice: Exploration, Discovery, and Adventure in Antarctica's Peninsula Region
• Antarctica: A Guide to the Wildlife (Bradt Travel Guide)