How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into
landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at
empty landscapes and the role of the arts to investigate the way humans
make sense of space. In Terra Antarctica, Fox continues this line
of inquiry as he travels to the Antarctic, the "largest and most extreme
desert on earth." This contemporary travel narrative interweaves
artistic, cartographic, and scientific images with anecdotes from the
author's three-month journey in the Antarctic to create an absorbing and
readable narrative of the remote continent. Through its images, history,
and firsthand experiences--snowmobile trips through whiteouts and his
icy solo hikes past the edge of the mapped world--Fox brings to life a
place that few have seen and offers us a look into both the nature of
landscape and ourselves.