The Loneliest Continent: The Story of Antarctic Discovery

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279 pp. 8vo. From the jacket: "Mr. Chapman, beginning with the imaginative ideas of early Greek geographers, tells of the first South Seas voyages, the rugged adventures of the sea lers and whalers of the 18th and 19th centuries, and the first major American expedition - prompted by the speeches and writings of a gentleman who believed that habitable worlds inside the earth could be reached through great holes in the Poles. The more scientifically oriented expeditions of [the twentieth] century are described in detail... The finals chapters of the book review the recent advances made in the International Geophysical Year, and the richness of the resources modern science can unlock for the future in this frozen world - as well as the present status of international claims to a land which Captain Cook, one of its first visitors, dismissed as 'utterly worthless.'" Show more