Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: "Heroic Era" Narratives -- 1 Robert F. Scott's Last Expedition -- 2 Ernest Shackleton and Heroic Survival -- 3 "Heroic Era" Subversions and Revisions -- Part Two: Antarctic Fiction -- 4 Uncanny Adventures -- 5 Antarctic Whaling Literature for Children -- 6 Picturing Penguins -- Conclusion -- References -- Index