The Antarctic is the coldest driest & windiest region on Earth-yet it continues to capture our imagination. Antarctica: Secrets of the Southern Continent tells its story as we know it so far. The book features up-to-the-minute coverage of Antarctica & the sub-Antarctic islands including geology & geography flora & fauna current scientific research conservation issues & the impact of global warming. Antarctica also
Includes:: inspiring stories of polar exploration & scientific enterprise from early hypotheses about an unknown southern land through Amundsens conquest of the South Pole in 1911 the ratification of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 & the subsequent cooperative effort to preserve Antarctica as a continent for peace & science." The authoritative & reader-friendly text is compiled by an expert team of Antarctic scientists expeditioners & historians & is illustrated with more than 600 superb photographs."