Antarctica
Antarctica: firsthand accounts of exploration and endurance
edited by Charles Neider
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Cooper Square Press, 2000, c1972.
ISBN: 0815410239
DDC: 919.8904
LCC: G870
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Summary:
"One of the last remaining frontiers, there are few places as
forbidding, or as intriguing, as Antarctica. This collection of
self-contained excerpts from journals and memoirs chronicles the
journeys of fourteen daring adventurers in the highest, driest,
windiest, coldest, and most remote of the seven continents.
Blizzards, frostbite, snow blindness, scurvy, food shortages and
shipwrecks were common occurrences. Faced with terrifying isolation
and the world's harshest conditions, not everyone survived. These
harrowing firsthand narratives stand as tributes to the limitless
ambition and pioneering spirit of man."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes:
"An unabridged republication of the edition originally titled
Antarctica: authentic accounts of life and exploration ... first
published in New York in 1972, with the addition of a postscript to
the introduction and two textual emendations"--T.p. verso.
Click on a subject to see other books listed with the same
subject or to drill down into components of the subject -- such as
geographical locations, dates and so on.
We query many merchants so that you can instantly
compare prices and
availability. You can even check historic prices and subscribe
for notifications. For a manual check, clicking on a link will open a
new window with a search for this book on the merchant's site of your
choice.
