Antarctica's Frozen Chosen
Author: Hazel Edwards
Publisher: Published by Lothian & Audio by Louis Braille.
ISBN: 0 7344 0519 7
Available from: Lothian, now Hachette and can be ordered via Alliance Distribution Services (ADS) Customer Service on (02) 4390 1300.
Young Adult/Cross over eco-thriller: Naïve 'Antarctic wildlife' web chat activists are 'got at' by a terrorist group and there's a mutiny. On board 'The Polar Scientist' a beset, polar resupply ship, Antarctic 'boffins' are held for their scientific knowledge of a genetic mutation causing infertility which crosses from 'beasties' to humans.
Kyle and his Spanish exchange-student girlfriend Jade get involved, when Kyle gets a last minute job counting ele-seals for the Antarctic summer. Activist Jade e-mails daily about illegal fishing vessels, Patagonian Tooth fish poachers and the Red Herrings web chat-line. After a crazy haircut, which is an Antarctic ritual like ice-dipping nude, Kyle faces questions of mateship and the issues of who owns what and how far you will go to protect a friend, even one who calls you Big K.
On board the 'boffins' face the dilemma of whether their scientific knowledge should be shared if politicians, will mis-use it.
Teachers' Notes
Reviews
Downloads
- School Project: Journeys Using Antarctica in Your Classroom During International Polar Year
- Make your own model 'iceship' plan
- Hazel's Antarctic Bibliography
- Bibliography for YA and Crossover Fiction by Hazel Edwards
Related links
- International Polar Year
- Australian Antarctic Division
- Classroom Antarctica
- Casey Station
- Casey Station - Wikipedia page