Below the Convergence: Voyages Towards Antarctica 1699-1839 by Alan Gurney

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ISBN: 9780712673297

Trafalgar Square, January 1998

336 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the early British, American and Russian expeditions to Antarctica, from the astronomer Halley's voyage in the Paramore in 1699 to the sealer John balleny's 1839 voyage in Eliza Scott, all in search of land, fur or elephant seals and all undertaken in terrible conditions.