Haddelsey, Stephen

Icy graves: exploration and death in the Antarctic

by Haddelsey, Stephen

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Highlighting the true heroism of Antarctic explorers, the dangers they face and the equipment used to prevail.

Icy graves: exploration and death in the Antarctic

by Haddelsey, Stephen

0 Type: Book

It is no secret that the Antarctic is one of the most dangerous, forbidding places for explorers to step foot in. The terrain is treacherous, the wildlife predatory and the climate fatal if not adequately prepared for. For the first time, Icy Graves uses a selection of the tragi…

Hitherto, popular historians of British Antarctic exploration have focused their attention, almost exclusively, on the period known as the 'Heroic Age,' a retrospectively applied collective term which is now generally understood to cover the sixteen expeditions – both British an…