Antarctic Journal

When we think of the adventures of explorers, we tend to do so through the colorful mechanisms of imagination and dreams, rather than with the cold literalness of scientific reports. A white coldness, we might say, that corresponds to the object of the voyage on which the writer Óscar Barrientos Bradasic embarks, who draws from multiple myths, stories, maps, songs, series, films and various references to tell us how Antarctica has been represented from Antiquity to the present day, adding to this myriad of sources his own experience, in a boat trip that brings him closer to the South Pole of the Earth.

Key points

• It offers a space for utopias around the mythical continent, as in the case of Megapatagonia, the result of the imagination of one of the many discoveries in this fascinating book: Restif de la Bretonne.
• The reader will find singular treasures in this book: dazzling adventurers of the seas or of the imagination, writers and artists who were vividly motivated by the icy lands, among them Poe, Lovecraft and Verne.
• English translation sample by Dick Cluster available.