The White South

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The White South
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First edition
Author Hammond Innes
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreThriller
Publisher William Collins & Sons
Publication date
1949
Media typePrint

The White South is a 1949 thriller novel by the British writer Hammond Innes. It is set on a factory ship operation in the Antarctic Ocean.

In 1954 it was adapted into the film Hell Below Zero directed by Mark Robson and starring Alan Ladd and Stanley Baker. [1]

In his obituary of Innes, Jack Adrian described The White South as "the book that was instrumental in lifting him out of the general ruck of thriller writers, establishing him as a writer that serious critics (such as Elizabeth Bowen and J.W. Lambert) took seriously". [2]

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