Antarctica is the only continent without a permanent human population, but it has inspired a wealth of imaginative literature
- Written by: Elizabeth Leane, Professor of Antarctic Studies, School of Humanities, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania
Christopher Wood/ShutterstockWhen I was working on my book Antarctica in Fiction, friends and colleagues would joke about what an easy task I had taken on. How many writers would choose to set a novel in a continent with no permanent human population? Surely a dozen or so books would cover it.
To begin with, I too vastly underestimated the work...
