June 2020 Issue Fergus Fleming Home of the Six-Foot Penguin Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice By Gillen D’Arcy Wood LR
December 2003 Issue Andrew Taylor The Price of Heroism Captain Scott By Rannulph Fiennes The Last Great Quest: Captain Scott's Antarctic Sacrifice By Max Jones LR
October 2014 Issue Sara Wheeler The Icemen Cometh The Crossing of Antarctica: Original Photographs from the Epic Journey that Fulfilled Shackleton’s Dream By George Lowe & Huw Lewis-Jones Shackleton: By Endurance We Conquer By Michael Smith LR
December 2010 Issue David Crane The Icemen Cometh Race for the South Pole: The Expedition Diaries of Scott and Amundsen By Roland Huntford LR
September 2008 Issue Fergus Fleming Footloose Racing with Death: Douglas Mawson – Antarctic Explorer By Beau Riffenburgh LR
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