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Big Dead Place by Nicholas Johnson

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

Johnson’s savagely funny [book] is a grunt’s-eye view of fear and loathing, arrogance and insanity in a dysfunctional, dystopian closed community.

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Who it’s for
A sharp, off-kilter look at Antarctica’s weirdly human underbelly.
Genres
Personal Memoirs, Polar Travel, Travel Humor
Published
Feral House, June 11, 2005

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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

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

Where it sits

Personal Memoirs45%
Travel Humor35%
Polar Travel31%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Psychology at Work
  • How Cultures Work
  • Pop Culture Studies
Authors
Nicholas Johnson, Eirik Sonneland - foreword, Aaron Abano
Publisher
Feral House
Published
June 11, 2005
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Psychology at Work