A Short History of Polar Exploration Kam Charles Ives

Charles Ives

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From the novel to the political manifesto

A Short History of Polar Exploration Kam Charles IvesAccording to Apsley Cherry Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised.' Despite this there has never been a shortage of volunteers willing to endure the bad times in pursuit of the glory that polar exploration sometimes brings. Nick Rennison's compelling book tells the memorable stories of people who have risked