Big Dead Place

Antarctica is cathedral-like mountain vistas, sublime whiteness, unearthly blue icebergs, and adorable penguins. That's true. Its also true that Antarctica is infested with invasive species, saturated with diesel, bureaucratic, radioactive, dirty and slutty.
Most people want to believe, and most people want you to believe that Antartica is the former. Nick Johnson, veteran icer, exposes the latter perspective in "Big Dead Place", a book that I refer to as the people's history of Antarctica.
I'm currently working my way through the book - its everything ridiculous, outrageous, unsavory, and hypocratic about the United States Antarctic Program and the people who inhabit this strange place.
Check out some of the featured articles on Nick's website in you're interested in looking past the propaganda of the Antarctic 'experience': http://www.bigdeadplace.com/