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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