Antarctica: The Last Continent

by Kim Heacox, National Geographic Society

For the first time in its 110-year-long history, the National Geographic Society dedicates a book to the coldest, windiest, highest, driest, least populated, and most remote corner of the earth. " The Last Continent" is a celebration of extremes of hope --- hope that even now, on the dawn of a new millennium [written in 1998], we who can alter any landscape on the earth will have the wisdom to leave this one alone.

Genres: Nonfiction, Nature, Travel

200 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Kim Heacox is the author of more than a dozen books, five of them published by National Geographic.

He’s won the National Outdoor Book Award twice, first in 2015 for his novel Jimmy Bluefeather, the only work of fiction in 25 years to win the award. And again in 2020 for his memoir, The Only Kayak, as an “outdoor classic” (originally published in 2005).

He writes opinion-editorials for The Guardian in celebration and defense of the natural world, and lives in a small town in coastal Alaska with his wife, Melanie, where they support the emerging Glacier Bay Leadership Program within Tidelines Institute. Learn more about him at www.kimheacox.com and download the Jimmy Bluefeather book club guide at westmarginpress.com.

Reviews

[Samantha Rupkus]

I read the issues as they come out monthly also spend quite a nit if time on nationalgeographic.com to

[Lara]

I loved this. It's a great little overview of Antarctica, divided into different chapters on exploration, wildlife, politics, history, etc. The photographs are gorgeous too!

[Shannon]

I really enjoyed this book. I've always been fascinated by this continent and this is a really great little book by National Geographic on it.