num_pages: 400
description: The discovery and exploration of Antarctica is revealed through memoirs, letters, and ship's logs, including James Cook's first glimpse of the South Pole in the eighteenth century, as well as Richard Byrd's winter in Antarctica alone. Reprint.
language: English
title: The South Pole: A Narrative History of the Exploration of Antarctica
titlecomplete: The South Pole: A Narrative History of the Exploration of Antarctica (National Geographic Adventure Classics)
genres: History
ratings_count: 14
publisher: National Geographic