Mountains of madness
Subtitle: a journey in Antarctica
By: John Long
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2000
Place of publication: St. Leonards, N.S.W
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781741151336
Subjects: Journeys; Electronic books; Scientific expeditions; Travel; Paleontology; Historical; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; Discovery and exploration
Description: A riveting account of a modern scientific expedition to the Antarctic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-233) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Part title; Title page; Foreword; Contents; Preface: My Mountains of Madness; 1 A strange and hostile land; 2 Of heroes, rocks and fossils; 3 Survival training: Tekapo, New Zealand; 4 Arrival in Antarctica; 5 Antics on ice; 6 A very good Christmas; 7 Dry valleys, sand dunes and rivers; 8 Back to the Great White South; 9 Cape Evans and Cape Royds; 10 A flight of discovery; 11 On Mr Darwin's glacier; 12 The first worst day of my life; 13 Dancing on the Gorgon's head; 14 Up the McCleary Glacier; 15 A room at Fish Hotel; 16 The skua; 17 The ascent of Mt Gudmundson; 18 Over the Mulock Glacier