Book
Big Dead Place
Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica
Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword, Aaron Abano
Feral House · Print & ebook · June 11, 2005
Reading lane: Polar Worlds
Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Cold Weirdness
A sharp, off-kilter look at Antarctica’s weirdly human underbelly.
Come here for
- Antarctica as a strange, menacing workplace
- A dry, darkly comic edge
Expect
- Cultural-literate context
- Easy to dip into in small chunks
Book Details
- Authors
- Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword, Aaron Abano
- Publisher
- Feral House
- Published
- June 11, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Polar Worlds · 21st-Century History
- Reading lane
- Polar Worlds
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Publisher Categories
Psychology at Work
How Cultures Work
Pop Culture Studies
About This Book
Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community. It’s like M*A*S*H on ice, a bleak, black comedy.”— The Times of London
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