Toward Antarctica
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Elizabeth Bradfield
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-09 - Publisher: Red Hen Press

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“The most original piece of travel writing about the Antarctic region I have read in years . . . Bradfield is a literary tour guide in the best sense.” —E
Crossing Antarctica
Language: en
Pages: 346
Authors: Will Steger
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-02 - Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press

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In March 1990, Will Steger completed what no man had ever before attempted: the crossing of Antarctica, a total of 3,700 miles, on foot. Lured by the challenge
Beyond the Barrier
Language: en
Pages: 589
Authors: Eugene Rodgers
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-15 - Publisher: Naval Institute Press

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When this book originally appeared in 1990, it was hailed as an important new work because of the author's access to Adm. Richard E. Byrd's just-released privat
Below the Convergence
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Alan Gurney
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-27 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the Paramore to the sealer
The Ice
Language: en
Pages: 466
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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“The Ice is a compilation of more about ice than you knew you wanted to know, yet sheer compelling significance holds attention page by page. . . . Pyne conve