Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica
Fourth Estate, $29.99 pb, 431 pp, 9780732296049
Fiction
Chasing the Light: A Novel of Antarctica by Jesse Blackadder
by Judith Armstrong •
The 2012 centenary of the dramatic Scott–Amundsen race to reach the South Pole prompted several new non-fiction books on Antarctica. No fewer than five of them were reviewed in the December–January edition of London’s Literary Review, a welcome reminder of the superb Ferocious Summer (Profile Books, 2007) by Australian author Meredith Hooper, which won the Victorian Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction in 2008 (disclosure: I was convenor of that panel).
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