Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839 by Alan Gurney

Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839

Alan Gurney

315 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous slow-paced
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This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley’s 1699 voyage in the Paramore to the sealer John Balleny’s 1839 excursion in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, glory, fur, sc...

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