Title Antarctica : authentic accounts of life and exploration in the world's highest, driest, windiest, coldest and most remote continent / edited with an introduction and notes by Charles Neider

Published London : Allen & Unwin, 1973

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Description x, 464 pages 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 Analysis Antarctic Exploration, 1773-1969 Personal observations Notes Map on lining-papers Bibliography Includes bibliographic references (pages 461-462) SUBJECT Antarctic Regions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005490 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024 Antarctic Regions -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114196 Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493 Antarctica -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114199 Author Neider, Charles, 1915-2001. ISBN 0049100521

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