Adrian Caesar

The White

It is 1912, the heroic age of Antarctic exploration. Scott's journey has ended. Mawson's is just beginning. Adrian Caesar's stunning stroke of imaginative re - creation transports us to the last days of those perilous expeditions in the heart of the white continent. 

Sweeping  through deaths and disasters with the pace and inevitability of a thriller, The White inexorably lays bare the forces that drove these two adventures, the values that inspired them, and the remorseless obsession that dominated them.

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Praise for The White: 

‘Adrian Caesar’s chilling prose transported me right back into the heart of Antarctica. This is a magnificent retelling of those two fateful expeditions of 1912.’

–  Ranulph Fiennes on The White

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‘This imagined re-creation of the two most unforgettable Antarctic disasters tells brutal stories but manages to do so with great tenderness and grace. Adrian Caesar’s literary high-wire act works wonderfully well, adding a vivid humantiy to landscapes scattered only with stiffly written memoirs and black, ice-cold memorials.’

– Simon Winchester on The White

 

The White is an exceptionally rich and moving experience . . .’

– Michael McGirr, Australian Book Review

 

‘Caesar has done something remarkable . . .It is compulsive reading’

– Christopher Bantick on The White in The Canberra Times

 

‘Hundreds of books have been written about Scott and Mawson, but The White must stand proudly with the best.’

-- Wayne Gregson in the Bendigo Advertiser