![]() ![]() ![]() After a series of costly setbacks, the commandant faced two bad options: turn back in defeat and spare his men the devastating Antarctic winter, or recklessly chase fame by sailing deeper into the freezing waters. 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. ![]() Madhouse at the End of the Earth has it all.-Stacy Schiff Julian Sancton has deftly rescued this forgotten saga from the deep freeze.-Hampton Sides In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a threeyear expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. The harrowing 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 Deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing's immortal classic Endurance.-Nathaniel Philbrick A riveting tale, splendidly told. ![]()
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