Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957
Author(s):
Behrendt, John C.
Copyright: 1998, US
Specifications: 1st, 8vo, pp.xviii, 428, 50 bw photos, 5 maps, black cloth
Condition: dj w/ mark to spine, else fine, cloth fine
Behrendt has made 12 trips to the Antarctic and here provides his account of the life of a scientist while a member of a U.S. Navy-supported scientific expedition to establish Ellsworth Station on the Filchner Ice Shelf (1956-58). An amazing story of science, adventure, conflicts and more.