Antarctica
Subtitle: firsthand accounts of exploration and endurance
By: edited by Charles Neider
Contributors: Neider, Charles, 1915-
Edition: 1st Cooper Square Press ed
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: Antarctica -- History; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration
Description: "One of the last remaining frontiers, there are few places as forbidding, or as intriguing, as Antarctica. This collection of self-contained excerpts from journals and memoirs chronicles the journeys of fourteen daring adventurers in the highest, driest, windiest, coldest, and most remote of the seven continents. Blizzards, frostbite, snow blindness, scurvy, food shortages and shipwrecks were common occurrences. Faced with terrifying isolation and the world's harshest conditions, not everyone survived.

These harrowing firsthand narratives stand as tributes to the limitless ambition and pioneering spirit of man."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "An unabridged republication of the edition originally titled Antarctica : authentic accounts of life and exploration... first published in New York in 1972, with the addition of a postscript to the introduction and two textual emendations"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical refernces (p. 459-460)
Table of contents: title: In search of a continent / James Cook; title: The high latitudes / George Forster; title: Antarctic seas / Thaddeus Bellingshausen; title: Towards the pole / James Weddell; title: Antarctic cruise / Charles Wilkes; title: Farthest south / James Clark Ross; title: At the pole / Roald Amundsen; title: The last march / Robert Falcon Scott; title: Boat journey / Ernest Shackleton; title: Great white south / Herbert G. Ponting; title: The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard; title: Alone / Richard E. Byrd; title: Living at the pole / Paul Siple; title: Crevasses / Edmund Hillary