ANTARCTICA: AN EXPEDITION CRUISE TRAVEL GUIDE

by Jo Kessel

Fascinated by Antarctica? This book is for you. Thinking of visiting Antarctica? This book is doubly for you. Fancy doing an expedition cruise here? This travel guide is especially for you.
A trip to the seventh, white continent is the ultimate adventure for the intrepid traveller and the vast majority of visitors come here on an expedition cruise. This is the first travel guide to show what it’s really like to take part in this type of voyage and Jo Kessel delivers a gripping, day-by-day account of her own experience. Illustrated with personal photos it explores the highs (including the waves on the infamous Drake Passage) and the lows - from penguins, to whales, to icebergs to glaciers as well as the hiking, kayaking, polar plunging and camping which are integral features of an expedition cruise.
Are you too old? Not fit enough? Is it too cold? What to wear? Jo Kessel has advice for every eventuality, offering insider TOP TIPS at the end of each chapter.
Jo Kessel is a British novelist, journalist and travel writer for the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph. She also has her own YouTube travel channel: Go with Jo.
Part travelogue, part photo-journal, this expedition cruise travel guide to Antarctica was inspired by the diary of early polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. It’s a witty, reflective chronicle which also touches upon more serious issues like Antarctic conservation, plastics pollution and climate change.
This book is a must-read not only for anyone wanting to know how best to enjoy a holiday on this unique continent, but also for those keen to learn more about this icy wilderness and help preserve it for future generations. One thing’s for sure: Antarctica is like nowhere else on Earth.

70 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 17, 2019

About the author

Jo is a qualified lawyer turned journalist. She worked for the BBC before reporting and presenting for ITV on holiday, consumer and current affairs programmes. She writes for several national newspapers in the UK including the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph and the Express and was the anonymous author for the Independent's hit column: Diary of a Primary School Mum. Jo lives in London with her husband, three children, Jerald the cat and three chickens. She has published four contemporary romances: Lover in Law, Weak at the Knees, Now is our Time and A Call to Heaven. A year ago she published her first ever travelogue: ANTARCTICA: AN EXPEDITION CRUISE TRAVEL GUIDE. It was inspired by early polar explorer Shackleton's own diaries and chronicles Jo's extraordinary voyage on an expedition to Antarctica. The travelogue is regularly featured in Amazon's top ten travel books. And now, to add to the list of non-fiction books, Jo has published her first memoir: BORN BLUE: A TRUE STORY AND MEDICAL MIRACLE MEMOIR. It tells the story of how her baby was born blue, starved of oxygen and how a clinical trial going on at the time saved her life.

Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 5 out of 5]

Planning trip soon, also in November, as was the author’s. In small ship. Reading this helped me imagine what to expect and how to prepare.
I’m very excited. Years ago I was thrilled to visit Tierra del Fuego. Glad that I found this informative book—-with tips.

[John Koppitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Know What to Expect

Although I've travelled a lot (including photo safaris in Africa where we stayed in tents on the plains), my upcoming Antarctica expedition is going to be so different. I'm in pretty decent shape, but 72 years I wondered....Knowing what to expect is a huge part of preparing for anything. I'm so glad I read it!

[Kat · Rating 4 out of 5]

realistic descriptions about Antarctic expedition travel

Resonated - it provided descriptions that synced with my pre-travel impressions and was born out by some of the sights and activities I experienced on a Quark Expedition trip to Antarctica

[Melissa A. Frazier · Rating 4 out of 5]

helpful introduction to what an Antarctica cruise is really like

Jo Kessel presents an interesting and honest day by day diary of Antarctic cruise covering not only what she did but also how she felt about it.

[Penelope S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful!

A brief but thorough review of the author’s experience on an Antarctic expedition ship. A lot of information on what the experience is like, preparing the reader for what to expect.

[Lori A · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good overview ANTARCTICA

Good quick overview of Antarctica trip, very visual descriptions. Would have enjoyed more photographs. Appreciate the insight for trip to Antarctica.

[Lynda · Rating 4 out of 5]

More of a journal of what the author did on her trip than a detailed guide. I wish she had included more tips, the ones she did add were quite helpful. Quick read with some nice photos.

[Erin Stevenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

pre-Antarctica


Very basic information prior to going to Antarctica. I would have enjoyed more photos shared. Glad I read it overall.