Forgotten Footprints - Lost Stories in the Discovery of Antarctica

John Harrison’s Forgotten Footprints is the untold storyof the sailors, sealers and eccentrics who discovered thelast continent: Antarctica. A thrilling record of lost triumph and tragedy, a sagaof adventure and ambition against all odds, and acompelling insight into extraordinary personalitiesand the times that shaped them, Forgotten Footprintscaptures the fascination of this most extreme,mysterious and beautiful of environments in JohnHarrison’s characteristically vivid and affecting prose.