The South Pole
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South Pole
As one of two points where the Earth’s axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole’s advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating—and lavishly illustrated—story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.
Race for the South Pole
Author: Roland Huntford
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2010-09-30
In 1910 Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen set sail for Antarctica, each from his own starting point, and the epic race for the South Pole was on. For the first time Scott's unedited diaries run alongside those of both Amundsen and Olav Bjaaland, never before translated into English. Cutting through the welter of controversy to the events at the heart of the story, Huntford weaves the narrative from the protagonists' accounts of their own fate. What emerges is a whole new understanding of what really happened on the ice and the definitive account of the Race for the South Pole.
Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World, Volume II: Annotated Color Edition with Premium Analytics
Author: Cook, Captain James
language: en
Publisher: W. Frederick Zimmerman
Release Date: 2026-03-10
Captain James Cook's epic second voyage around the world in the 1770s. Sails from Tahiti through the South Pacific islands. This Naval Classics edition features RKHS (Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space) analytical enrichments including surprisal analysis narrative complexity metrics and computational literary analysis that illuminate the text from a modern data-science perspective.