![]() ![]() But de Gerlache's plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. ![]() His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. Sancton has produced a thriller."- The Wall Street Journal In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. ![]() The "exquisitely researched and deeply engrossing" ( The New York Times ) true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter "The energy of the narrative never flags. ![]()
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