Expedition


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Terror
The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Worst Journey in the World
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
At the Mountains of Madness
The Luminous Dead
Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition
The Terror by Dan SimmonsAt the Mountains of Madness by H.P. LovecraftFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyDark Matter by Michelle PaverWho Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
Polar Horror
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
Aspley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World

Tove Jansson
Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of his woolly trousers) and surrounded completely by an awful floating emptiness. "I always thought clouds were soft and woolly and nice to be in," said Sniff, sneezing. "Ugh! I'm beginning to be sorry I ever came on this expedition. ...more
Tove Jansson, Comet in Moominland

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