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Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s
Before the Heroes Came Antarctica in the 1890s
Author: T. H. Baughman
Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780803212282
ISBN-10: 0803212283
Publication Date: 12/1/1993
Pages: 160
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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