End of the Earth

The legendary polar explorer was one of many spellbound by Antarctica; his contemporary Apsley Cherry-Garrard would ask: "Why do men who have returned always wish to go back to the hard and simple life?"
Peter Matthissen offers insight as he turns his keen eye and sharp pen to the White Continent. From the crystal beauty of a towering iceberg to the teeming rookeries of the emperor penguin to the fierce yet fragile environment that is almost inaccessibly remo... >Voir plus