An illustrated account of a journey to the Ross Sea and Great Ice Barrier in seven chapters. Burke focuses particularly the history of Byrd, Ellsworth, Siple and other Antarctic explorers, including the Americans involved in Operation Deep Freeze. He concludes with a chapter about his own journey aboard a Russian icebreaker to the Bay of Whales, the southernmost reach of the Southern Ocean. With 70 color photographs.  (ANT176, $21.95)