90 SOUTH

by Paul Siple ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Dr. Paul Siple was, at the age of nineteen, the boy scout chosen to accompany Admiral Richard E. Byrd's first expedition to Antarctica in the winter of 1927/28. Since that time, when a close personal relationship sprang up between the boy scout and the Admiral, Siple's life has been repeatedly bound up with arctic exploration and he has ore recently been in command of the base set up on the geographic south pole, which wintered there in 1956/57 in connection with the American contributions to the International Geophysical Year. Dr. Siple writes well and clearly of the history of early south-polar exploration, of his personal reminiscences of Admiral Byrd, of his own actual experiences in the Antarctic --some of which are fairly hair-raising -- and of the possibilities,-both physical and political, for Antarctica in the future. Much of his narrative is a justly bitter (though never ill-tempered) account, often in words of one syllable, of the constant problems deriving from the military-scientific split in command since the government took an interest in the South Pole during the second world war. The book is certainly not written for younger readers, but could be highly recommended to them.

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Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: NONFICTION