SPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With a new introduction by award-winning author Helen
Macdonald. The New York Times bestselling third installment of Jeff VanderMeer's wildly
popular Southern Reach Trilogy. It is winter in Area X the mysterious wilderness that has
defied explanation for thirty years rebuffing expedition after expedition refusing to reveal
its secrets. As Area X expands the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it-the
Southern Reach-has collapsed in on itself in confusion. Now one last desperate team crosses
the border determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking.
If they fail the outer world is in peril. Meanwhile Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the
circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X-what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among
the many who have tried who has gotten close to understanding Area X-and who may have been
corrupted by it? In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy the
mysteries of Area X may be solved but their consequences and implications are no less
profound-or terrifying.
