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Before the Heroes Came, Antarctica in the 1890s
by Tim Baughman
- EXPLORATION
- 1999
- PAPER
- 160 PAGES
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This well written account of the pioneering Antarctic encounters stars Carsten Borchgrevnink, who spent the first winter on the continent in 1898 at the hut still standing at Cape Adare; Sir Clements R. Markham, the ambitious president of the Royal Geographical Society; and a lesser-known Scotsman, William Bruce.
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