![]() ![]() What began as an audacious scientific mission morphed into an epic struggle for survival.Īs the men battled blizzards, hunger, depression, rats and scurvy, some became inconsolable, some mad, while others were consumed by infections that turned them into living corpses. The crew were to make history for a different reason- they were to be the first adventurers to face the brutal Antarctic winter, completely cut off from the world. Temperatures plummeted, winds howled, perpetual darkness fell. ![]() But after setbacks slowed its progress, ice closed in and ensnared the ship. The Belgica set sail from Europe on a sunny day in August 1897, intent upon becoming the first scientific expedition ever to reach the South Pole. The harrowing, survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly wrong, with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter ![]() 'It grips from first sentence to last' - Lawrence Osborne 'An unforgettable tale brilliantly told' - Scott Anderson 'The next great contribution to polar literature' - Hampton Sides A new classic of extreme endurance - Into Thin Air meets The Perfect Storm in 19th century Antarctica ![]()
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