Below the Convergence

Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839

By: Alan Gurney

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Paperback | 1 March 2007 | Edition Number 1

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<p>This wonderfully written book tells of the first Herculean expeditions to Antarctica, from astronomer Edmond Halley's 1699 voyage in the Paramore to the sealer John Balleny's 1839 excursion in the Eliza Scott, all in search of land, glory, fur, science, and profit. Life was harsh: crews had poor provisions and inadequate clothing, and scurvy was a constant threat. With unreliable -- often homemade -- charts, these intrepid explorers sailed in the stormy waters of the Southern Ocean below the Convergence, that sea frontier marking the boundary between the freezing Antarctic waters and the warmer sub-Antarctic seas. These men were the first to discover and exploit a new continent, which was not the verdant southern island they had imagined but an inhospitable expanse of rock and ice, ringed by pack ice and icebergs: Antarctica. 18 illustrations, 15 maps. </p>

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Will delight both the armchair traveler and the intellectual tourist.-- "Chicago Tribune"

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List of Maps	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. 1
Terra Australis Incognita	p. 3
The Haven-Finding Art	p. 22
The Plague of the Sea	p. 35
The Southern Ocean	p. 53
Edmond Halley and the Pink Paramore	p. 69
Mr. James Cook	p. 86
The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure	p. 109
The Continent Discovered	p. 146
Weddell and Brisbane Sail South	p. 186
Weddell and the Fuegians	p. 216
John Biscoe: The Third Circumnavigation	p. 240
Kemp and Balleny: The Last Discoveries by Sealers	p. 259
Epilogue	p. 276
Maps	p. 282
Bibliography	p. 299
Index	p. 305
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Below the Convergence

Voyages Toward Antarctica, 1699-1839

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