Description This stunning and powerfully relevant book tells the history of Antarctica through 100 varied and fascinating objects drawn from collections around the world. It presents a gloriously visual history of Antarctica, from Terra Incognita to the legendary expeditions of Shackleton and Scott, to the frontline of climate change. Some of the details and images include: Snow goggles adopted from Inuit technology by Amundsen The lifeboat used by Shackleton and his crew A bust of Lenin installed by the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition The Polar Star aircraft used in the first trans-Antarctic flight A sealing club made from the penis bone of an elephant seal The frozen beard as a symbol of Antarctic heroism and masculinity Ice cores containing up to 800,000 years of climate historyA book that is both endlessly fascinating and a powerful demonstration of the extent to which Antarctic history is human history, and human future too.
