The roof at the bottom of the world
Subtitle: discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
By: Edmund Stump
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780300171976
Subjects: Orogeny; Geology
Description: The Transantarctic Mountains are the most remote mountain belt on Earth, an utterly pristine wilderness of ice and rock rising to majestic heights and extending for 1,500 miles. In this book, Edmund Stump is the first to show us this continental scale mountain system in all its stunning beauty and desolation, and the first to provide a comprehensive, fully illustrated history of the region's discovery and exploration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Through the portal : discoveries along coastal Victoria Land; title: From the sea to the ice plateau : the crossing of Victoria Land; title: Fire, ice, and the magnetic pole : further discoveries in Victoria Land; title: Penetrating the interior : discoveries in the central Transantarctic Mountains; title: Beyond the horizon : discoveries in the Queen Maud Mountains; title: Earth's land's end : the exploration of Scott glacier; title: To the IGY and beyond : filling in the spaces.