Through the First Antarctic Night, 18981899 by Frederick A. ... - 9781108076746
Through the First Antarctic Night, 18981899A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica among Newly Discovered Lands and over an Unknown Sea about the South Pole\nAuthor(s): Frederick A. Cook\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108076746, 978-1108076746\nSynopsis\nIn this illustrated 1900 publication, Frederick Cook [tel] gives a detailed account of his experiences on the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, the first to endure the harsh winter of the Antarctic. The goal of the expedition was scientific discovery, and Cook, the ship's doctor, tells an engaging story of 'new human experience in a new, inhuman world of ice'. Boarding the Belgica in Rio de Janeiro, he joined a crew that included Roald Amundsen, who would later lead a Norwegian expedition to the South Pole. Cook describes the challenging conditions in the Antarctic Circle, where the ship became ice-bound for almost a year, with over two months .
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