Antarctica: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0199670552
- ISBN-13
- 9780199670550
- Series
- Antarctica
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 614
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-24
- Author
- David Day
Description
The first ever major international history of the world's most forbidding continent - from the eighteenth-century voyages of discovery to the fierce commercial and geopolitical rivalries of today
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