Antarctica : authentic accounts of life and exploration in the world's highest, driest, windiest, coldest and most remote continent / edited with an introd. and notes, by Charles Neider. --
TITLE:
Antarctica : authentic accounts of life and exploration in the world's highest, driest, windiest, coldest and most remote continent / edited with an introd. and notes, by Charles Neider. --
Publication Date:
1972
Publication Information:
New York : Random House,
Edition:
[1st ed.]. -
Physical Description:
x, 464 p.: map (on lining papers); 22 cm.
Geographic Term:
Contents:
In search of a continent, by J. Cook.--The high latitudes, by G. Forster.--Antarctic seas, by T. Bellingshausen.--Towards the pole, by J. Weddell.--Antarctic cruise, by C. Wilkes.--Farthest south, by J. C. Ross.--At the pole, by R. Amundsen.--The last march, by R. F. Scott.--Boat journey, by E. Shackleton.--Great white south, by H. G. Ponting.--The worst journey in the world, by A. Cherry-Garrard.--Alone, by R. E. Byrd.--Living at the pole, by P. Siple.--Crevasses, by E. Hillary.--Bibliography (p. 461-462)
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780394468310
