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This 1911 publication, translated from the French, vividly
describes the varied hardships and satisfactions of Antarctic
exploration and scientific research in the early twentieth century.
Son of the famed neurologist, Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936)
commanded the Pourquoi-Pas? on its hazardous journey into the
ice-bound regions south of Cape Horn. Illustrated with numerous
photographs, his journal entries provide a rich account of daily
life aboard the ship and out on the ice, including encounters with
seals and penguins, and Christmases gathered around a cardboard
tree. Building on the advances made by previous expeditions,
including his own on the Francais (1903-5), Charcot and his men,
ranging in their expertise from astronomy to zoology, set out to
further push back the boundaries of the unknown 'for the honour of
French science'. The precise mapping of more than a thousand miles
of Antarctic coastline ranked as one of the expedition's foremost
achievements.
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