Description
This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world.
It presents a gloriously visual history of Antarctica, from Terra Incognita to the legendary expeditions of Shackleton and Scott, to the frontline of climate change.
Some of the details and images include:
- Snow goggles adopted from Inuit technology by Amundsen
- The lifeboat used by Shackleton and his crew
- A bust of Lenin installed by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition
- The Polar Star aircraft used in the first trans-Antarctic flight
- A sealing club made from the penis bone of an elephant seal
- The frozen beard as a symbol of Antarctic heroism and masculinity
- Ice cores containing up to 800,000 years of climate historyA book that is both endlessly fascinating and a powerful demonstration of the extent to which Antarctic history is human history, and human future too.
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