1912
Subtitle: the year the world discovered Antarctica
By: Chris Turney
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781582437897
Subjects: Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration
Other titles: Year the world discovered Antarctica; Nineteen twelve
Description: Chronciles the 1912 expeditions to Antarctica, including those by Roald Amundsen, Wilhelm Filchner, and Douglas Mawson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [314]-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: Looking Polewards : early ventures South; title: An audacious plan : Ernest Shackleton and the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909; title: A new land : Robert Scott and the Terra Nova Expedition, 1910-1913; title: Of reindeer, ponies, and automobiles : Roald Amundsen and the Norwegian bid for the South Pole, 1910-1912; title: The Dash Patrol : Nobu Shirase and the Japanese South Polar Expedition, 1910-1912; title: Locked in : Wilhelm Filchner and the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1912; title: Ice-cold in Denison : Douglas Mawson and the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1913; title: Martyrs to Gondwanaland : the cost of scientific exploration; title: Appendix. Lord Curzon's notes.