| Pole | Year | Title | Author |
| |
| N |
1893 | My Arctic Journal | Josephine Peary |
| N |
1901 | The Snow Baby | Josephine Peary |
| N |
1954 | Woman in the Polar Night | Christiane Ritter
(Austrian painter spends a year in Spitsbergen in 1933). Reissued by Univ.
Alaska Press, 2010. |
| S |
1956 | My Antarctic Honeymoon | Jenny Darlington |
| N |
1985 | Women of the Four Winds: The Adventures of Four of America's
First Women Explorers | Elizabeth Fagg Olds (chapter on Louise
Arner Boyd, who explored Greenland in the 1930s) |
| N |
1987 | The New North: An Account of a Woman's 1908 Journey Through
Canada to the Arctic | Agnes Deans Cameron, David R. Richeson |
| N |
1992 | Arctic Schoolteacher: Kulukak, Alaska, 1931-1933 |
Abbie Morgan Madenwald |
| N |
1997 | This Distant and Unsurveyed Country: A Woman's Winter at
Baffin Island, 1857-1858 | W Gillies Ross |
| N |
1999 | Under Polaris: An Arctic Quest | Tahoe Talbot
Washburn (1938 Arctic Canada) |
| N |
2002 | Midnight to the North: The Untold Story of the Inuit Woman
Who Saved the Polaris Expedition | Sheila Nickerson |
| N |
2003 | Ada Blackjack - A True Story of Survival in the Arctic |
Jennifer Niven |
| N |
2004 | Alaska's Daughter: An Eskimo Memoir of the Early Twentie
th Century | Elizabeth Pinson |
| N |
2004 | A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador |
Mina Benson Hubbard (orig. pub. in 1908; edited and with a new introduction
by Sherrill E. Grace) |
| S |
2004 | Antarctica's First Lady: Memoirs of the First
American Woman to Set Foot on the Antarctic Continent and Winter-Over
as a Member of a Pioneering Expedition | Edith M Ronne |
| N |
2005 | Prisoners of the North: Portraits of Five Arctic
Immortals | Pierre Berton, includes Lady Jane Franklin |
| N |
2005 | Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison
| by Gwyneth Hoyle, Scottish woman explored arctic circle 1927-1936
|
| N |
2006 | Inuit Entertainers in the United States | Jim Zwick
(incl the `Eskimo Twin Girls') |
| N |
2006 | Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession,
and the Remaking of Arctic History
| Ken McGoogan |
| |
| S |
1980 | Antarctica, a traveller's tale |
Jean McLennan Bailey |
| S |
1981 | The New Explorers, Women in Antarctica |
Barbara Land |
| S |
1982 | Teaching a Stone to Talk
(ch 2 `An Expedition to the Poles)' | Anne Dillard
|
| S |
1987 | Women on the Ice: A History of Women in the Far South
| Elizabeth Chipman |
| S |
1990 | South to the Pole by Ski - Nine Men and Two Women
Pioneer a New Route to the South Pole | Joseph E. Murphy |
| N |
1994 | Polar Dream: The First Solo Expedition by a Woman and
Her Dog to the Magnetic North Pole
| Helen Thayer |
| N/S |
1995 | Frost Bytes: a Story of Two Women at Opposite Ends of
the Earth | Pene Greet and Gina Price |
| N |
1997 | Skating to Antarctica: A Journey to the End of the World
| Jenny Diski |
| S |
1998 | Women in the Antarctic | ed. by J. S.
Weinstock, J. Morris, E. D. Rothblum |
| S |
1999 | Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica |
Sara Wheeler |
| S |
1999 | Time on Ice: A Winter Voyage to Antarctica
| Deborah Shapiro, Rolf Bjelke |
| N |
1999 | Thin Ice: A Women's Journey to the North Pole
| Matty McNair |
| S |
2000 | The South Pole 2000 | Caroline Hamilton
(Women walk to N. AND S. Pole) |
| N |
2000 | Frigid Women | Sue Riches (woman and daughter go
to North Pole). Reissued in 2010. |
| S |
2001 | Just Tell Them I Survived!: Women in Antarctica
| Robin Burns |
| S |
2001 | Four to the Pole!: The American Women's Expedition to
Antarctica 1992-1993 | Ann Bancroft, Nancy Loewen |
| N |
2001 | Alone Across the Arctic: One Woman's Epic Journey by
Dog Team | Pam Flowers, Ann Dixon |
| S |
2001 | Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at
the South Pole | Jerri Nielsen |
| N/S |
2002 | To the Poles Without a Beard | Catharine
Hartley (women walk to both Poles) |
| S |
2003 | No Horizon Is So Far: Two Women and Their Historic
Journey Across Antarctica | Liv Arnesen, Ann Bancroft and Cheryl Dahle
|
| S |
2004 | Swimming to Antarctica
| Lynn Cox |
| N |
2005 | Ordinary Women: An Arctic Adventure | Sue Carter (12
women ski to N Pole) |
| S |
2005 | Southern Exposure | Alia Sorensen
(year at Mcmurdo) |
| S |
2005 | On the Ice
| Gretchen Legler (NSF artist in residence finds love in Antarctica)
|
| S |
2005 | If Antarctica Were a Women
| Lucy Jane Bledsoe (online here )
|
| N/S |
2006 | Wings Around The World: The Exhilarating Story of One
Woman's Voyage from the North Pole to Antarctica | Polly Vacher |
| N |
2006 | The Explorers Daughter: A Young Englishwoman
Rediscovers Her Arctic Childhood | Kari Herbert (daughter of
Wally Herbert)
|
| S |
2006 | The Ice Cave: A Woman's Adventures from the Mojave
to the Antarctic | Lucy Jane Bledsoe
|
| S |
2006-- | Homeless Heidi
| Heidi
blogs
about her 4th and 5th Winters at the South Pole
|
| N |
2007 | Barbara Hillary, 75, skis to North Pole
| first African American women to get there.
USA Today article here,
nice interview in Sept/Oct 2007 Women's Adventure Magazine
here
|
| N/S |
2008 | The Scholar & Feminist Online |
Gender on Ice
Issue 7.1, Fall 2008
|
| S |
2008 | Polar First |
Jennifer Murray, first to fly a helicopter around the world via the Poles |
| S |
2010 | The Ice Beneath My Feet: My Year in Antarctica |
Diana Patterson; first women to be in charge of the Australian
Mawson Antarctic base |
| S |
2010 | Cold Hands, Warm Heart |
Tess Burrows; grandmother joins recent South Pole Race to promote world
peace |
| S |
2011 | Call of the White |
Felicity Ashton; British adventurer leads an expedition of Commomwealth
women to the South Pole |
| |
| S |
1991 | The Moon by Whale Light (section 4 `White Lanterns')
| Diane Ackerman |
| S |
2004 | The Hunter's Breath: On Expedition With the Weddell
Seals of the Antarctic | Terrie Williams |
| N |
2005 | The Future of Ice: A Journey into Cold
| Gretel Ehrlich |
| N |
2005 | Ice: The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an
Astonishing Substance | Mariana Gosnell |
| N |
2005 | Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
|
Marla Cone |
| N |
2006 | Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert |
| S |
2012 |
Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of the World's Most Mysterious Continent |
Gabrielle Walker |
| |
| S |
1982 | To An Antarctic Traveller
|
Katha Pollit (poem, in her book Antarctic Traveller) |
| S |
1990 | Antarctica Body | Vivian Darroch-Lozowski
(poems) |
| S |
1990 | The Heart Balloon | Robin Morgan (in Upstairs
in the Garden, Poems Selected and New) |
| S |
1991 | The White Lantern: Poems of Antarctica |
Diane Ackerman (in Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems) |
| S |
2000 | Antarctica
|
Patti Sirens (in her book Antarctica) |
| S |
2001 | Antarctica | Caroline Caddy (Australian poet
who visited Antarctica) |
| S | 2010 | Approaching Ice | Elizabeth Bradfield (book of
poems on polar history. Recommended!
More info here)
|