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Antarctica - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Antarctica - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in
1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination.
David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in
fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two
centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious
geopolitics.
Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a
sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the
dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book
offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists
battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see
intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing
to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and
whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed
nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their
highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like
Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of
undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations
seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives
and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a
place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about
seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it
was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its
geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a
little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming
territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White
Continent.
The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for
polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical
Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish
scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic
Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than
competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from
the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a
fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's
struggle to claim it.
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