Slicing the Silence

Voyaging to Antarctica

Tom Griffiths

  • 2007 Queensland Premier's Non-fiction Book Award
  • 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction
  • 2008 Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History
  • Prologue
  • 18 December: The Fire on the Snow
    Legends of the heroic era
  • 19 December: The Breath of Antarctica
    The Brave West Winds
  • 21 December: The University of the Southern Ocean
    Life at Sea
  • 23 December: Great South Lands
    Reading the Rocks
  • 24 December: Heavenly Bodies
    Space Weather
  • 25 December: Planting Flags
    Claiming the Ice
  • 26 December: Cold Peace
    Reds Down Under
  • 27 December: Wintering
    Surviving the Polar Night
  • 28 December: Solitude
    An Experiment in Loneliness
  • 29 December: Honeymoon on Ice
    Love in a cold climate
  • 30 December: Of Huddles and Pebbles
    Life Among the Penguins
  • 31 December: The Changeover
    Time, History and Generations
  • 1 January: Green Crusaders
    Greenpeace and Greenhouse
  • 3 January: Feeding Body and Soul
    Hunger and Wonder
  • 6 January: Captain Scott's Biscuit
    The Archaeology of Return
  • 7 and 8 January

  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Cover: Slicing the Silence
  • A photo of the author

Tom Griffiths teaches history and the environment at the Australian National University in Canberra and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.