My Last Continent : A Novel (Paperback)

from hfineisen

This is a beautifully written novel mainly because of it's descriptions of ice and wildlife in Antarctica. There is truly a love triangle between Deb, Keller and Antarctica. The love story and the disaster are as epic as Titanic as written and is riveting and heartbreaking. I actually cried while...

from Beamis12

3.5 I have such a huge fascination for the Antarctic continent, a place I will never visit. Plus, love reading novels set in cold climates when it is so blasted hot out. Wonderfully descriptive writing, the cold, the ice, the glaciers, and the wonderful penguins. A love story between Deb and Kell...

from Maydacat

Deb discovered her passion and changed her life's career. Keller lost his family and tried to find a way to erase the emptiness in his life. Deb is a naturalist who studies and counts penguins in the Antarctica. She meets Keller on an assignment there. Something clicks between them, and slowly bu...

from bogopea

Raymond's writing is wonderful and her descriptions of Antarctica and it's inhabitants seem visual to me. She seems to have a breadth of knowledge of the region and the environment and dangers of global warming. A man and a woman meet there on a mission to study penguins. The book has alternating...

from auntmarge64

This paean to our most mysterious continent uses the relationship between two researchers and the sinking of a passenger liner in the Antarctic ice to frame a tale in which the beauty and danger of life in the far south is made indelible for the reader. Although told in the first person, the main...