Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole: Frederick Albert Cook: 9780905838403: Amazon.com: Books
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Through the First Antarctic Night 1898-1899: A Narrative of the Voyage of the Belgica Among Newly Discovered Lands and Over an Unknown Sea About the South Pole Hardcover
The Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–1899 led by Adrien de Gerlache was the first expedition to winter in the Antarctic region. As the expedition's surgeon, Frederick Cook contributed greatly to saving the lives of the crew when the Belgica was ice-bound during the winter. Through the First Antarctic Night is Cook's first person account of his time with the expedition and the long Antarctic night spent waiting for the pack ice to break.
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The book itself is alright - it's a fairly routine travelogue and you don't really reach the Antarctic until halfway through. The real issue I have with this digital version is the number of textual errors. Measurements, degrees, numbers are often incorrectly formatted. A great many words include a space way between. It seems that this book should have been more thoroughly vetted and looked over before the digital version was made available publicly.