Icy Graves

Exploration and Death in the Antarctic

Stephen Haddelsey

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HISTORY PRESS
01 November 2020

Travel & holiday; Expeditions

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

Ever since Captain Cook first sailed into the Great Southern Ocean in 1773, mankind has sought to push back the boundaries of Antarctic exploration. The first expeditions tried simply to chart Antarctica's coastline, but then the Sixth International Geographical Congress of 1895 posed a greater challenge: the conquest of the continent itself. Though the loss of Captain Scott s Polar Party remains the most famous, many of the resulting expeditions suffered fatalities. Some men drowned; others fell into bottomless crevasses; many died in catastrophic fires; a few went mad; and yet more froze to death. Modern technology increased the pace of exploration, but aircraft and motor vehicles introduced entirely new dangers.

For the first time, Icy Graves uses the tragic tales not only of famous explorers like Robert Falcon Scott and Aeneas Mackintosh but also of many lesser-known figures, both British and international, to plot the forward progress of Antarctic exploration. It tells, often in their own words, the compelling stories of the brave men and women who have fallen in what Sir Ernest Shackleton called the White Warfare of the South.

AUTHOR: Stephen Haddelsey has a PhD from the University of East Anglia and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical and Royal Historical societies. He is currently working with the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust as Director of Project South Ice, and is the author of several books, including Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse, and the Manitoba award-winning Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944 46 (all The History Press).

16 b/w illustrations

By: Stephen Haddelsey
Imprint: HISTORY PRESS
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd New edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780750994842
ISBN 10: 0750994843
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

STEPHEN HADDELSEY has a PhD from the University of East Anglia and has been elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical and Royal Historical societies. He is currently working with the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust as Director of Project South Ice, and is the author of several books, including Ice Captain: The Life of J.R. Stenhouse, and the Manitoba award-winning Operation Tabarin: Britain's Secret Wartime Expedition to Antarctica 1944-46 (all The History Press).