Start with high-confidence polar regions history books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Frozen in Time
Mitchell Zuckoff
Sea of Glory
Nathaniel Philbrick
Camp Century
Henry Nielsen, Kristian Hvidtfeldt Nielsen
The Man Who Ate His Boots
Simon Vance, Anthony Brandt
The Last Place on Earth
Roland Huntford, Paul Theroux
In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides
The White Darkness
David Grann
A Wretched and Precarious Situation
David Welky, Joel Richards
Endurance
Alfred Lansing, Nathaniel Philbrick
Unravelling the Franklin Mystery, Second Edition
David C. Woodman
Ada Blackjack
Jennifer Niven
The Ice at the End of the World
Jon Gertner
Into the Great Emptiness
David Roberts
John Shears, Nico Vincent
Overland to Starvation Cove
Heinrich Klutschak
Cold
Wayne L. White
Arctic Passages
Kieran Mulvaney
So You Want to Own Greenland?
Elizabeth Buchanan
Secrets of Antarctica
Brad Olsen
