Description

Antarctica may seem remote, extreme and perhaps even forbidding. Yet everybody who has visited comes back full of enthusiasm, with amazing memories and stunning photos. The author inspires interest in this amazing place while encouraging responsible, informed and sustainable tourism.

The book helps you to decide where and when to go, whether to include South Georgia and/or the Falklands, how to read between the lines of an itinerary, which operator to book with and what size of ship will suit you best. It provides practical information about weather, clothing, photography and biosecurity. Antarctica’s ice cap stores 90% of the world’s freshwater ice, and it is a crucial place for climate monitoring and other scientific research.

There are lots of links to useful websites here. Use this book to plan your adventure of a lifetime, but be warned: many who visit Antarctica end up trying to return.

Features
• This guidebook contains all you need to plan and make the most of your Antarctic adventure:
• Foreword by Stephen Venables
• wildlife section (penguins, seals, whales and dophins) lavishly illustrated with colour photos
• explanation of the amazing adaptations and breeding cycles of Antarctic wildlife
• how icebergs form and why their shapes, sizes and colours vary
• specially commissioned mapping to help you follow popular itineraries
• specialist options from sea kayaking to camping on the ice
• over 100 colour photos supporting concise text based on the author’s personal experiences.
• the 1959 Antarctic Treaty, the Madrid and Montreal Protocols, and their implications
• how Antarctica’s climate varies and how its melting ice affects sea levels
• history of Antarctica’s discovery, exploration and exploitation
• the discovery of the Endurance shipwreck, 107 years after the ship was crushed and sank.

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