Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s

by T.H. Baughman

Book Overview

Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803261632
• ISBN13: 9780803261631
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"