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We hope the following list will be a useful resource for you to begin exploring the deep south. Many of the titles we've read but some we haven't so good luck!

Antarctica: The Complete Story 
David McGonigal (Editor), Lynn Woodworth (Editor), Edmund Hilary (Introduction)
The Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife: Birds and Marine Mammals of the Antarctic Continent and the Southern Ocean 
Hadoram Shirihai, Brett Jarrett (Illustrator)
Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated Checklist S.) 
Martin De La Pena
March of the Penguins 
Luc Jacquet

The Great Race: Recreating Scott and Amundsen's Race to the South Pole 
Jasper Rees
Antarctica Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide 
Tony Soper
Safe Return Doubtful: Heroic Age of Polar Exploration
by John Maxtone-Graham
Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals of Captain R.F.Scott
by Robert Falcon Scott
The Heart of the Antarctic
by Sir Ernest Shackleton
"Endurance": Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic
~Alfred Lansing
Scott and Amundsen: Last Place on Earth
by Roland Huntford, Paul Theroux (Introduction)
The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
South: The Endurance Expedition: The "Endurance" Expedition
by Sir Ernest Shackleton, Frank Hurley (Photographer)
Shackletons Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy
by Lennard Bickel
The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antartctic Expedition in the "Fram", 1910-12
by Roald Amundsen
Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
by Sara Wheeler
Captain Scott
by Ranulph Fiennes
Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival
by Ranulph Fiennes (Foreword), Sir Douglas Mawson
The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition
by Susan Solomon
Hell with a Capital H
by Katherine Lambert, Peter King (Introduction)
South: the Race to the Pole 
Pieter van der Merwe
The South Pole: A Historical Reader (National Geographic Adventure Classics) 
Anthony Brandt (Editor)
The Hillary Step: From Everest to the South Pole 
Peter Hillary, John E. Elder
Ice Bound: One Woman's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole 
Jerri Nielsen
A First Rate Tradegy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the South Pole 
Diana Preston
The Crystal Desert: Summers in Antarctica 
David G. Campbell
To the Poles Without a Beard: The Polar Adventures of a World Record-breaking Woman 
Catherine Hartley

Antarctic Oasis: Under the Spell of South Georgia 
Tim Carr, Pauline Carr

Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated Checklist S.) 
Martin De La Pena
Tierra del Fuego 
Sylvia Iparraguirre, Hardie St Martin (Translator)
Voyaging: Southward from the Strait of Magellan 
Kent Rockwell
Cape Horn and Other Stories from the End of the World 
Francisco Coloane
To the End of the World and Back: A Millennium Adventure 
Ian Middleton
Birds of Patagonia, Tierra Del Fuego and Antarctic Peninsula: The Falkland Islands and South Georgia 
Enrique Couve, C. Vidal
A Bicycle Journey to the Bottom of the Americas: Being a True Account of a Bicycle Adventure from Alaska to Tierra Del Fuego 
George J. Hawkins
From Here to Tierra Del Fuego CB 
Magee
Analytical & Critical Bibliography of the Tribes of Tierra Del Fuego & Adjacent Territory (1917) 
John M. Cooper
Tierra Del Fuego 
S. Iparraguirre
In Patagonia (Penguin Classics) 
Bruce Chatwin, Nicholas Shakespeare (Introduction)
Patagonia: Wild Land at the End of the Earth 
Tim Hauf, Tim E. Hauf (Photographer)
Patagonia Revisited 
Bruce Chatwin, Paul Theroux
Idle Days in Patagonia 
W.H. Hudson
A Story of Patagonia 
John Locke Blake

Farthest North: The Incredible Expedition to the Frozen Latitudes of the North
by Fridtjof Nansen, Fergus Fleming
Beyond the Limits 
Ranulph Fiennes
Frozen in Time 
John Geiger
Ninety Degrees North: The Quest for the North Pole 
Fergus Fleming

Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster 
Jon Krakauer
Touching the Void
Joe Simpson
The Beckoning Silence
Joe Simpson
This Game of Ghosts
Joe Simpson
Storms of Silence
Joe Simpson
Dark Shadows Falling
Joe Simpson
Annapurna: The First Conquest of an 8000-metre Peak
Maurice Herzog, Joe Simpson (Introduction)
Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks (Adrenaline S.)
Clint Willis (Editor), Joe Simpson (Introduction)
Summit Fever
Andrew Greig, Joe Simpson (Introduction)
The Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm
Matt Dickinson
Black Ice
Matt Dickinson
High: Stories of Survival from Everest and K2 (Adrenaline S.)
Clint Willis (Editor)

Discovery Road
Tim Garratt, et al
Long Way Round
Ewan McGregor, Charley Boorman
Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls
Edward E. Leslie
 

The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake: From the Antarctic to the Amazon
Peter Blake, Alan Sefton (Editor)
The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst (Sailor's Classics S.)
Nicholas Tomalin, et al
The Riddle of the Sands (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.)
Geoffrey Household (Foreword), Erskine Childers
Once Is Enough (Sailor's Classics)
Miles Smeeton
Maiden Voyage
Tania Aebi, Bernadette Brennan
Around Alone
Emma Richards
Ice Bird: The Classic Story of the First Single-Handed Voyage to Antarctica
David Lewis
Sailing Alone Around the World
Joshua Slocum
Taking on the World
Ellen MacArthur