Madhouse at the End of the Earth

Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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Madhouse at the End of the Earth
Julian Sancton
"A sensational but true tale of Antarctic exploration and the race to fill in the last few truly uncharted places on the map. This thrilling narrative details the story of the Belgica and her crew as they battle for survival after their ship becomes trapped in the ice in the midst of the merciless Antarctic winter. Madhouse at the End of the Earth paints a well-rounded portrait of the band of colorful characters aboard the Belgica expedition and explores the limits of human ingenuity, hope, and hubris in the face of unrelenting disaster."

In 1897 the young Belgian aristocrat Adrien de Gerlache sailed for Antarctica aboard the steamship Belgica with dreams of becoming the first to reach the magnetic South Pole. Instead, he steered the ship deep into the sea ice and condemned her crew to a yearlong imprisonment in a frozen landscape. In this true-life adventure story laced with gothic horror, Julian Sancton recounts the Belgica crew's harrowing quest to survive. In the endless winter night, plagued by scurvy and a mysterious polar disease that not even brilliant American doctor Frederick Cook could explain, the men descended into madness and turned against one another. And when the sun returned and still the ice would not relinquish the ship, the explorers hatched a dangerous escape plan that would either etch their names in history or doom them to a watery grave. Madhouse at the End of the Earth is an unforgettable classic of exploration and disaster, a survival story so remarkable that even today it is studied by NASA for its lessons on the limits of what humans can endure.
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Author: Julian Sancton

Paperback: 384 pages

Language: English

5-3/16 x 8

ISBN: 9781984824349

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