Antarctica: A Year at the Bottom of the World

Experience the strange beauty of Antarctica through photographs and exciting personal anecdotes that take armchair travelers and future explorers right to the edge of the ice! In this breathtaking book, Jim Mastro describes his striking year-long account of what it's like to exist at the bottom of the world, complete with photographs, captions, and his own dramatic, personal narrative. Experience face-to-face encounters with pods of killer whales, deadly winter storms, and floes of gray ice. Endure the lonely isolation during four months of utter darkness. Enjoy the anticipation and warmth of the world's shortest summer. Jim Mastro takes you there to face the challenges and adventures that he survived.-- Jim Mastro has worked in Antarctica for more than five years as a biologist and has experienced every season many times. His personal written account is gripping and supplemented with vivid color photographs.-- Told in a stirring, first person narrative that allows readers to hear the roar of the Antarctic wind, this book will appeal to many armchair adventure enthusiasts.-- From the aurora australis to Bird Island, Weddell seals and blue ice, "Antarctica" is a vibrant panoply of natural beauty and man's influence on the ice.