Author: QUARTERMAIN, L.B. (FOREWORD BY SIR RAYMOND PRIESTLEY)
Title: South to the Pole. The Early History of the Ross Sea Sector, Antarctica.
Description: London, Oxford University Press. 1967, First Edition. Beige Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, xx, 481 pages, 44 b/w illustrations on 26 plates, 2 maps and maps on endpapers. Dust jacket worn on edges, lacking 1.5cm at the top of the spine. Written by one of New Zealand's leading Antarctic scientists and writers. "This first full-scale account of any one sector of the Antarctic tells the story of the area most rich in history - that from the Ross Sea 'south to the Pole'. From the courageous voyages of Cook and Bellingshausen in the 18th and early 19th centuries, the first penetration of the Sea by Ross himself, the first deliberate wintering in the Antarctic by Borchgrevink and the first great inland journeys by Scott and Shackleton, the story moves to the attainment of the Pole by Amundsen and Scott, the tragic, splendid, though little-known story of the Ross Sea section of Shackleton's abortive Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-1917, the Odyssey of the Ross Sea whalers and the proclamation of the Ross Dependency in 1923. These, as well as . little publicized exploits . are told with an immediacy and wealth of human interest only attainable by an author who has not merely soaked himself in Antarctic lore but who himself knows the Antarctic.". Very Good/Good.

Keywords: James Clark, Ross, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Amundsen,


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