![]() ![]() But de Gerlache’s plans to be first to the magnetic South Pole would swiftly go awry. His destination was the uncharted end of the earth: the icy continent of Antarctica. ![]() Madhouse at the End of the Earth has it all.”-Stacy Schiff “Julian Sancton has deftly rescued this forgotten saga from the deep freeze.”-Hampton Sides In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter“Deserves a place beside Alfred Lansing’s immortal classic Endurance.”-Nathaniel Philbrick “A riveting tale, splendidly told. ![]()
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