Showing Below the Convergence: Voyages Toward Antarctica 1699-1839 by Alan Gurney

Below the Convergence Tells of the first expeditions to Antarctica - all in search of land, glory, science and profit. With unreliable charts, the intrepid explorers were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant island they had imagined but an inhospitable, frozen expanse of rock, ringed by pack ice and icebergs. Full description