A full and intimate portrait of the most mysterious continent on earth, and how it holds the key to all our futures. ANTARCTICA weaves all the significant threads into an intricate tapestry, made up of science, natural history, poetry, epic history, what it feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people back there again and again. It is only when all the parts come together that the underlying truths of the continent emerge. ANTARCTICA is the most alien place on Earth, the only part of our planet where humans could never survive unaided.