Forgotten Footprints
| Author | : John Harrison |
| Publisher | : Parthian Books |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2012-05-01 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781908946218 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1908946210 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (210 Downloads) |
Download or read book Forgotten Footprints written by John Harrison and published by Parthian Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgotten Footsteps won Creative Non-Fiction Wales Book of the Year 2013. Following Wales' Book of the Year Award 2011 winning Cloud Road, comes Forgotten Footprints, a history of the Antarctic Peninsula, South Shetland Islands and the Weddell Sea, the most visited places in Antarctica. In 12 years John has visited over 40 times and guides and lectures on adventure cruise ships. He delivers a selection of highly readable accounts of the merchantmen, navy men, sealers, whalers, and aviators who, with scientists and adventurers drew the first ghostly maps of the white continent.