Antarctic Odyssey: Endurance And Adventure In The Farthest South

It is the most remote and inhospitable, the coldest and driest of the earth's continents. Its bleakly stunning landscapes have attracted the boldest of the heroic age of exploration. Graham Collier tells its story in gorgeous photographs and vivid prose -- and how, like Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton, and others before him, he fell under the spell of Antarctica. Very few people, scientists or explorers, have seen Antarctica as has Graham Collier. He has visited the camps of Scott and Shackleton, reached the slopes of the 13,000-foot volcanic Mount Erebus, and travelled to the unimaginably remote Peter I Island and Elephant Island, where the crew of the Endurance was marooned for four months. He has walked among basking seals, called on penguin rookeries, been dive-bombed by skua-gulls, and admired albatrosses like those in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Following in the footsteps of the great explorers from Captain Cook and James Clark Ross to Shackleton and Douglas Mawson, he recreates the experience of encountering the 'last continent' in all its icy splendour this exquisite book, Collier attempts to answer polar explorer Jea.

Hardcover. English. Carroll & Graf. 1999. ISBN: 9780786706532. 194 pp. Good with dw in protective plastic, inscription inside. Book No: 2506617