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The Race to the White Continent
Voyages to the Antarctic
by Alan Gurney
published 2002, W W Norton & Comany, New York.
"In the 1830s much of the world was still unexplored territory to European and American travellers, and the forbidding Antarctic region represented perhaps the ultimate mystery. As the decade drew to a close, three expeditions to the Pole were launched simultaneously by the United States, France, and Britain, each nation vying to be the first to forge a path through the ice and venture further south than any vessell had ever sailed before. The leaders of the expeditions were U.S. Navy officer Charles Wilkes, seasoned French explorer Dumont d'Urville, and Royal Navy captain James Clark Ross.
The Race to the White Continent is a colourful and captivating account of the travels and adventures of these navigators, who paved the way for the explorers, traders, and whalers of what was to become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration."
Illustrated - maps and a few b&w illustrations.
Condition: very good used condition
378 gms, 320 pages.
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