Éditeurs
Julian Sancton
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Cauchemar en Antarctique : le voyage de la belgica dans la nuit polaire
Julian Sancton
- Payot
- Recits De Voyage
- 15 Février 2023
- 9782228932257
L'histoire fascinante et tragique de la survie de la première expédition en Antarctique à la fin du 19e siècle, à bord d'un navire belge, la Belgica, pris au piège dans les glaces. Sous la houlette du jeune explorateur Roald Amundsen comme officier en second et du médecin expérimental Frederick Albert Cook, l'équipage endurera pendant presque un an les longues nuits noires de l'hiver antarctique avant de rentrer à bon port. Un huis-clos habilement mené, qui tient du polar.
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MADHOUSE AT THE END OF THE EARTH - THE BELGICA''S JOURNEY INTO THE DARK ANTARCTIC NIGHT
Julian Sancton
- Lane allen
- 6 Mai 2021
- 9780753553459
What happens when a ship is marooned in the earth''s most hostile landscape - for two years? Discover the voyage being used by NASA as a case study for the first Mars mission. 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. But after setbacks slowed its progress, ice closed in and ensnared the ship. Temperatures plummeted, winds howled, perpetual darkness fell. 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. What began as an audacious scientific mission morphed into an epic struggle for survival. As 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. It was down to the strongest characters to step up: namely the notorious surgeon Dr Frederik Cook and the first mate, a young Norwegian adventurer Roald Amundsen. Could they devise a plan to break free of the ice and guide the ship back to open sea, against all odds?
