The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic

Jon E. Lewis (Editor)

This is the very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's la...