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Antarctica
- Author
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 28 September 2021
- Run Time
- 19 hours 10 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.
It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.
Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.
Critics Review
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“Compelling characters…a rich and dense story…Robinson has succeeded not only in drawing human characters but also in bringing Antarctica to life.”
Washington Post Book World
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“A gripping tale of adventure on the ice.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Passionate, informed…Vastly entertaining.”
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Details
- Author
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Duration
- 19 hours 10 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781665108645
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Science fiction, Adventure fiction, Adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The award-winning author of the Mars trilogy takes readers to the last pure wilderness on Earth in this powerful and majestic novel.It is a stark and inhospitable place, where the landscape itself poses a challenge to survival, yet its strange, silent beauty has long fascinated scientists and adventurers.Now Antarctica faces an uncertain future. The international treaty which protects the continent is about to dissolve, clearing the way for Antarctica’s resources to be plundered, its eerie beauty to be savaged. As politicians wrangle over its fate, major corporations begin probing for its hidden riches. Adventurers come, as they have for more than a century, seeking the wild, untamed land even as they endanger it with their ever-growing numbers. And radical environmentalists carry out a covert campaign of sabotage to reclaim the land from those who would destroy it for profit. All who come here have their own agenda, and all will fight to ensure their vision of the future for the remote and awe-inspiring world at the South Pole.
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