Icy Graves (eBook)

Exploration and Death in the Antarctic

Stephen Haddelsey (Autor)

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2018 | 2. Auflage
304 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7509-8880-3 (ISBN)

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Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarctica's coastline, but then the Sixth International Geographical Congress of 1895 posed a greater challenge: the conquest of the continent itself. Though the loss of Captain Scott's Polar Party remains the most famous, many of the resulting expeditions suffered fatalities. Some men drowned; others fell into bottomless crevasses; many died in catastrophic fires; a few went mad; and yet more froze to death. Modern technology increased the pace of exploration, but aircraft and motor vehicles introduced entirely new dangers. For the first time, Icy Graves uses the tragic tales not only of famous explorers like Robert Falcon Scott and Aeneas Mackintosh but also of many lesser-known figures, both British and international, to plot the forward progress of Antarctic exploration. It tells, often in their own words, the compelling stories of the brave men and women who have fallen in what Sir Ernest Shackleton called the 'White Warfare of the South'.

STEPHEN HADDELSEY is the author of many books on Antarctic exploration history, including Ice Captain, Born Adventurer and Icy Graves, as well as other topics. He lives in Nottinghamshire.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.6.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: aeneas mackintosh, sixth international geographical congress 1895, antarctic exploration, polar exploration • Antarctic • Antarctica • Antarctic exploration • antarctic, exploration, Antarctica, polar exploration, Arthur Farrant, Belgrave Ninnis, Robert Falcon Scott, scott of the Antarctic, Robert scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, shackleton, ernest shackleton, White Warfare of the South • antarctic, exploration, Antarctica, polar exploration, Arthur Farrant, Belgrave Ninnis, Robert Falcon Scott, scott of the Antarctic, Robert scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, shackleton, ernest shackleton, White Warfare of the South, Exploration and Death in the Antarctic, great southern ocean • Arthur Farrant • Belgrave Ninnis • Ernest Shackleton • exploration • Exploration and Death in the Antarctic • great southern ocean|aeneas mackintosh • polar exploration • Robert Falcon Scott • Robert Scott • Scott of the Antarctic • Shackleton • Sir Ernest Shackleton • sixth international geographical congress 1895 • White Warfare of the South
• ISBN-10: 0-7509-8880-0 / 0750988800
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7509-8880-3 / 9780750988803